…. we are indeed before a “flâneur” of the capital, before someone who, although he does not live in it but in its most peaceful periphery, needs to peek almost daily into its streets and squares, to submerge himself in its crowds a bit like Edvard...
TEXTS OF CRITICS It matters little not to know how to find one’s way in the city,” said Walter Benjamin. The complex analysis of the dynamic components of the city carried out by José Miguel Palacio fragments the real and offers us the resulting concepts...
City inspiring stories, painted or written, the painter Palacio – “obsessed by Madrid”, Juan Manuel Bonet would say-, travels from the ground level, -the street and commerce, its lights or shadows, passers-by and emigrants, mimes, sellers or...
On December 14, 2016, the exhibition “Ambiguity behind the fascination” was inaugurated at the Art Center of Alcobendas, in which I gather works created between 2003 and 2016 with hyperrealist technique. I was accompanied that day by the mayor of...
Impure airplanes landing in lavish airports, high-speed trains in a sea of iron, the city and passers-by reflected in the store windows of luxurious stores, pharaonic constructions of skyscrapers versus the architecture and commerce of another era… These...
