…. 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...
“The multiple vision of Madrid offered by José Miguel Palacio is, no doubt, an attempt to build a poetics of the city in which he moves away from defeatism or a mere apology. Since 2003 he begins to fix scenes, sensations and characters from Madrid, with no...
“It must be said that today we must understand the sublime differently; we must strip this notion of its neoclassical pomposity, its Alpine swelling, its theatrical exaggeration; today, the sublime is first and foremost an experience of the mystery of the world,...
