José Macías González

Cáceres, Spain, 1963

Hyperbolic landscapes.

Hyperbole: A rhetorical figure of thought that consists of exaggerating or diminishing what is said.

"These landscapes are called hyperbolic for obvious reasons. They are exaggerated landscapes, exacerbated with large oil fillings and with an almost sculptural pretense. The roots are fundamentally expressionist and in the horizons only the horizon line would be left to arrive at pure abstraction. In This horizon line, heaven and earth, contaminate each other, making it impossible to discern where one begins and where another ends. It produces its contemplation or memory, which is why it is a type of painting that wants to directly appeal to emotion, to that spring that almost always remains asleep and which is beyond our control.

These landscapes change into a different and emotional language. My intention is that the viewer, when looking at them, feels that a set of emotions and sensations of some memory that floats or resides sheltered in some unknown fold of that immense drawer that makes up memory are relived. It is about painting-painting, visceral and primal without further pretense.

When I paint I do not seek to make a copy of reality. On the contrary, what I want is to represent a parallel reflection where landscapes are evoked, intuited or apprehended from the fragility of a memory or of an instant. A kind of emotional flash where memory recovers a landscape like a reverie, like a spark caused by a slight memory file that swarms through our heads and that sometimes wants to come alive again. So they don't look like reality, nor do they need to".

EXHIBITIONS

▷ EXHIBITION “PRADO, COPY AND INTERPRETATION MUSEUM”

Exhibition on the occasion of the two hundred years of the inauguration of the Prado Museum.

Collective exhibition.

Baluarte room. Tres Cantos (Madrid).

From February 15 to May 15, 2019.

▷ COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION. “SALA VAQUERO POBLADOR” (DIPUTACIÓN DE BADAJOZ).

From April 12 to May 11, 2019.

▷ YOUNG ART GALLERY, BADAJOZ.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION.

From December 14, 2018 to January 9, 2019.

Together with Alejandra Valero, Antonio Langoyo, Francisco Sánchez, Jam Montoya, Lorenzo López Lumeras, Mai Saki ...

▷ YOUNG ART GALLERY, BADAJOZ.

SUMMER COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION.

From June 14 to August 31, 2018.

Together with Raquel Sanz, Alejandra Valero, José Luis Hinchado, Zacarías Calzado, Jorge Juan Espino, Antonio Soriano, Diego del Moral, Ramón de Arcos, Melchor Balsera.

▷ MERCURIO LIBRARY, BADAJOZ.

From January 12 to February 8, 2018.

Collective exhibition with Raquel Sanz and Melchor Balsera.

▷ LUIS DE MORALES MUSEUM, BADAJOZ.

PAINTING THE CLASSICS.

From February 2 to 25, 2018.

Collective

▷ BLANK NIGHT 2018, BADAJOZ.

MERCURY LIBRARY.

Collective

▷ YOUNG ART GALLERY, BADAJOZ.

“GIVE UP. PAINT, SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN SMALL FORMAT ”.

From December 15, 2017 to January 13, 2018.

Together with Alejandra Valero, Amalia Moreira, Antonio Salazar, Daragh Walsh Kennedy, Francisco J. Vaz, Francisco Sánchez, José Luis Hinchado, Juanjo Bolaño, Melchor Balsera, Miguel Ángel García, Mila Galán, Pedro Castaño, Rafael Morera, Tato, Victoria Spacio Yolanda Friend.

▷ UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA.

Science Park Badajoz Campus.

"PAINTING WITH BURNED WOOD" Collective.

December 2017

▷ YOUNG ART GALLERY, BADAJOZ.

"PROPOSALS" Painting and sculpture.

From June 1 to 20, 2017.

Together with Ramón de Arcos, Teresa Crespo, José Luis Hinchado, Jorge Juan Espino, Rafael Morera.

▷ PEPE JEREZ RESTAURANT, BADAJOZ.

June 2017

Individual.

▷ CONVENTO SPACE, BADAJOZ.