Pilar Ostalé is a journalist with the pulse of a designer and a vocation as a painter, and also a painter who not only masters the art of telling stories, but also knows how to give them the appropriate form. These days and until the end of May he exhibits at the Tabook bookstore in Zaragoza. an exhibition of his watercolors, which includes works already exhibited at the end of last summer in the Torreta de Ansó, along with others of more recent creation; A large-format one stands out with the Candanchú mountains as a model.
Tabook is in the Zaragoza neighborhood of La Bozada. Ostalé defines the business that currently houses his pieces as the home of timeless books, a business with an artisan vocation that exercises on a daily basis the noble art of cultural dissemination with the hallmark of generosity and detail. The prices of the books that Tabook sells, by the way, are for all budgets, an example of the high romantic charge that they give to their business vocation. They cultivate the ‘lowcost’ spirit and offer a wide variety of themes among the volumes that find a second useful life in the store.
The clean and attentive look
The long dozen of paintings by Pilar Ostalé It has nature as a common thread, both in the broadest perspective and in detail. Along with great landscapes, very localized visions of natural wonders stand out; In fact, there is a space dedicated especially to mushrooms, a gift that she brings to the mountains of the Western Pyrenean Valleys to which the artist is closely linked by roots that time has enlarged.
This collection of paintings will be exhibited at Tabook (Díaz de Mendoza, 5, in La Bozada; very close to Aragonia) from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On Saturdays, the hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and on Sundays it is closed. On Tuesday, May 21, in the afternoon, at atypical hours for the business (it opens four or five days a month in the evening, and the owners announce it on their social networks and in the window), the artist will share with those who visit the exhibition and will offer a short explanatory tour of the exhibition.
