Jose' Noguero
dal 14/2/2014 al 21/3/2014
Segnalato da
14/2/2014
Jose' Noguero
Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin
"Flemish Landscapes", exhibition. With precise attention, the artist's figures prove to be a paraphrasing of the image "workforce" of modern painting, with themes such as the crucifixion and the annunciation.
The artistic work of José Noguero, which on the whole is distinguished through an uncommonly broad repertoire of media and means of expression (including sculpture, painting, drawing, object art, installation, video and photography), has since 2009 centered on painting. Although the motif of landscape served at first almost exclusively as a springboard for Noguero's dense and colorful paintings, his new works, which were created in connection with his time as a grant recipient at the Royal Spanish
Academy in Rome (2012), have found their point of crystallization in the human figure.
With precise attention, Noguero's figures prove to be a paraphrasing of the image 'workforce' of modern painting, with themes such as the crucifixion and the annunciation. Streaming forth from the iconographic and emotionally loaded figures, which the artist carefully prepared through numerous drawings, unfolds a fulminant painting, characterized by richly orchestrated color tones. Numerous interactions of colorful planes and gestural marks are accumulated within, together with rudimentary perspectival traces, to form exquisitely complex pictorial spaces. Noguero's painting masterfully negates the conventional differentiation of figuration and abstraction as well as the contrast between compositional calculus and spontaneous gesture.
The conscious reference to painting of the 16th and 17th centuries - such as the 'crucifixion' triptych by Joos van Cleve, in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples - is so much more than a post-modern game of citation: in that José Noguero intensively struggles with the technical and compositional accomplishments of the Renaissance and the Baroque, he develops the criteria for a sustainable culture of painting. With his newest paintings, José Noguero succeeds in dissolving the antagonism that persists between, on one hand, an affiliation to tradition and on the other, the quest for a decidedly contemporary stance from which to paint free from tradition.
José Noguero (*1968, Barbastro, Spain) is represented in the following collections: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía, Madrid – CAC, Málaga – CDAN, Huesca – ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz – Fundació Suñol, Barcelona – Diputación General de Aragón – Diputación de Huesca – Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Navarra – Colección Coca-Cola, Madrid – Künstlerförderung, Berlin.
2013 the following catalog has been published (118 S., span/engl): Chus Tudelilla, Nada esta estatua – José Noguero, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza.
The exhibition is kindly supported by the Spanish Embassy in Berlin.
Vernissage Saturday, February 15th 6-9pm
Greusslich Contemporary
Buchholzer Str. 11, Berlin
Opening hours: Wednesday and Thursday 6 - 9, Friday and Saturday 1-6
Free admission