“…in effect we are before a stroller of the capital, before someone who, although he does not live there but in its most peaceful periphery, needs to look almost daily at its streets and squares, to submerge himself in its crowds a little like Eduard Munch submerged himself in those of Oslo or Paris, to inhale what a strident Mexican would call the smell of gasoline, to see his face reflected in those shop windows that constitute one of his obsessions as for some of his North American predecessors. The day you were introduced, I told him ah, the painter of the shop windows“.
“Owner of a meticulous technique, he surpasses himself with each new challenge. His symmetrical pictures of the Capitol seen from Telefónica, and of Telefónica seen from the Capitol are of the most impressive, also shines the vision of the Callao bus, and the one of an AVE in Atocha, in which besides the cold beauty of the machine, it catches my attention the typical and variegated urban detail that is cut out on an immaculate sky, in the upper part of the composition”.
“The skies occupy a large part of the surface of José Miguel Palacio’s work: an escape route to a purer life, the dream of the urbanite who suddenly feels the temptation to escape”.
