JOSÉ MIGUEL PALACIO

MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONTEMPORARY VISUAL  ARTIST 

JOSÉ MIGUEL PALACIO´s STORE

Alstom 100 series trains at Puerta de Atocha station.
Oil on canvas. Fragment.
89 x 130 cm. Year 2012

José Miguel Palacio was born in Zaragoza in 1950 and studied at the School of Arts of his city.

His work is present in important collections and museums both in Spain and abroad: National Library, Seville City Hall, Railway Museum, Baunatal City Hall in Germany, National Museum of Belgrade, Reale Art Collection, Vodafone Foundation Collection, Realia Collection, Casino de Madrid Collection, among others.

He had his first individual exhibition in 1979, and at the beginning of the 90’s he moved to Madrid, where he developed his professional career mainly in painting.

At different times he has also cultivated other forms of expression such as engraving, photography, multiple and monumental sculpture, such as those installed in San Sebastián de los Reyes or Torrelodones.

Since 2003 his work is linked to hyperrealism where he is part of the most outstanding group of Spanish painters dedicated to this genre.

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JOSÉ MIGUEL PALACIO

CREATIVE PROCESS

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“This artist is, like Constantin Guys, another painter of modern life who makes the ephemeral memorable,

who searches, in the facades and fragments of the city or in the faces captured in passing, winks of complicity,

That gaze of the other that sets desire in motion.”

Fernando Castro Florez

VER CRÍTICAS

It matters little not to know how to find one’s way in the city,” said Walter Benjamin. But getting lost in it, like getting lost in the forest, requires an apprenticeship”.

Carlos Delgado Mayordomo

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José Miguel Palacio, in the end, is the closest thing I know to a modern “vedutista”. The Gran Via is his Gran Canal; the buses are his gondolas; the shop windows, his gallery of mirrors; the Canal Theater, his Fenice; the skyscrapers, his Salute; the Airbuses, his Bucentauro…

Juan Manuel Bonét

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An artist who devours the urban scenery, who likes to make it obvious but without diminishing the mystery, Palacio belongs to the lineage of the flâneurs, of the strollers who understand the metropolis as a fantastic place where events take place, -it wasa magnificent city, Georges Hugnet would say-,

Alfonso de la Torre

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