José María Yturralde (Cuenca, 1942) occupies a very special place within contemporary Spanish visual arts, both for the formal and conceptual coherence that emerges from his work and for the importance that his ideas about art and science have had. .
In Híades, the 2020 National Prize for Plastic Arts he tries to unite, in his words, “mythology, archaeoastronomy, magic and symbolism reflecting on current ideas of space, time, energy, matter, thus endowing them with soul and meaning ".