PRESS RELEASES ON THE CURRENT EXHIBITION
REPORT / INTERVIEW MADRID DIRECTO. 2012
TELEMADRID INTERVIEW JOSÉ MIGUEL PALACIO. 2012
METROPOLI. Hyperrealist fever. Jose Miguel Palacio 39 April, 2013
Trains by José Miguel Palacio (detail of ‘Trenes Alstom, serie 100, en estación Puerta de Atocha’), the pictorial nudes by Nadav Kander (‘Michael’) and the monumental Madrid by Paula Varona (detail of ‘Tensión Intangible II’). In addition to the Thyssen Museum, 3 other exhibitions play with the obsessions, intentions and themes of hyperrealism and aim to deceive the viewer: photography or painting?
EL PAIS. Hyperreal Madrid. Jose Miguel Palacio. April 26th, 2013
But, this… is it a photo or a painting? That’s the question many people probably ask themselves when they see José Miguel Palacio’s paintings. There you have them: the high-speed trains in Atocha, the cars stuck in Gran Vía, the airplanes in Terminal 4, the downtown shop windows, the neon lights, the pure Madrid life captured with total accuracy in his canvases, which are exhibited in the Ansorena gallery.
IBERARTE. The `Altaria' embarks on its journey. Jose Miguel Palacio. May 16th, 2011.
The Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles and the Zaragozan artist José Miguel Palacio, signed an agreement in which Palacio, gives to the institution his work ‘Altaria entering the Puerta de Atocha Station’ for a period of five years. This work, an oil on canvas 195 x 130 cm. and presided over the exhibition “The Railway in Art, Prints and Paintings of the nineteenth to twenty-first century”, which was held in April 2008 at the Railway Museum.
– You are considered a clear exponent of hyperrealism. However, how would you define his work?
– Although it is obvious that my work, given its characteristics, is framed within the most scrupulous hyperrealism, I also like to define it as an urban painting committed to the present moment. I certainly do not intend to produce in the viewer only the pleasurable sensation of seeing something imitated with extreme accuracy. In my work I look for scenes that serve as a testimony of the ways of acting and developing of any society. And more concretely of the one that has touched me to live.
CADENA SER. The hyperrealism of Jose Miguel Palacio, painting or photography? Jose Miguel Palacio. May 26th. 2009
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.
