Until August 23, the exhibition “Beyond urban reality”, by the painter José Miguel Palacio, will be on display in Room B of the Tomás y Valiente Arts Center until August 23. An exhibition that is a challenge: to convince ourselves that we are not looking at photographs, but paintings.
Oil snapshots. That’s how we could define the art of Zaragozan Jose Miguel Palacio. “Beyond urban reality” is the title of the exhibition that until August 23 fills the Centro de Artes Tomás y Valiente in Fuenlabreño with hyperrealism.
It is a look at cities from another perspective, fleeing from conventionalisms. This Torrelodones-based artist proposes, according to Carlos Delgado, to inhabit a territory without pretending to be a replica of it. Although, walking through the corridors of the exhibition hall, we are assured at least the doubt. Because we will not be sure if the images we contemplate are photographs or paintings.
The most curious thing is that Palacio’s works evolved from surrealism. His love for detail, each work takes about 700 hours, led him to land in hyperrealism.
In addition to this “Beyond urban reality”, the Centro de Artes Tomás y Valiente in Fuenlabrada hosts until June 10 the exhibitions “Emergente” by Colectivo de Artistas del Sur, “Sueños” by Clara Graziolino and “Campos de color” by Irma Álvarez- Laviada.
