Ultar interesting to approach the painter Lorenzo Macias using a beautiful poetic reference to the universe. In many of his paintings is portrayed a woman who looks straight ahead, like one of those big heads of Picasso. The lady wears a hat full of flowers funny dangling colored ribbons. The bouquet of flowers and ribbons framing the face of the girl with festive air. This pictorial motif has its origins in a folk festival in the pretty village of Aldan, where young girls parade in procession by wreath played that way at the celebration of Corpus Christi. That motif contains multiple records on which to interpret the painting of Macias and serves as an index or summary of all your work.
The female figure appears repeatedly as a support for the narrative of his universe. Women as goddesses, and Bacchae, as lovers or friends talk and sometimes celebrate the audience look weightless.
This female figure with elements of anthropology Galicia also includes other aspects of the avant-garde and the great masters of the twentieth century, which locates this world pictographic between local and universal.
The way in which the woman is drawn with a rapid pulse and close to the sketch, the links in the tables and drawings with the instinctive gesture of Picasso, but also wants to remind the brush full of life sketches of Delacroix or vibrant color stains Rubens. There is a lot of the baroque in the extreme form of not draw a line, but many scratches in the work of Lorenzo Macias.
By placing the female figure in different sets, it seems as if his films take her like a spell the artist's studio, to the party, the streets of small towns and finally, the musical dream as she repeatedly sees music or dance company.
Music is the most abstract of arts, there is only one whose latency when dispersed into the air and provides a magnificent pendant to the idealized figurative pictorial in the face of the muse.
The music is represented in pictographs silent in almost all categories of Lorenzo Macias, music ... dance music Matisse Picasso Faun ... house music of life.
His is a production where the quoted items, chromaticism, compositions of old masters or colleagues of this thematic thread serves. One way of painting led by involuntary memory and some specific affinities.
These matches the heart of the artist is found mostly in the tradition of painting over, rounded forms and opulence of the nineteenth century French composition when placed traveled by the Orientalist tendency the great Delacroix. To serve as a counterpoint explanatory, the other great line of seminal nineteenth century art, would be the classical and neoclassical heir of Poussin, Ingres and David as with senior representatives.
However, many artists of the twentieth century placed item and forms closer to a trend (opulent) than the other way (classical) depending on which language they choose to cover their canvases. Picasso undoubtedly belongs to the opulence. Balthus belongs to the classical simple. To better understand the reason of interwoven relationship observed in Lorenzo Macias with Picasso, the Fauves, you should use this form baroque origin from the ornate and rococo culture of the eighteenth century. That is also one of the sources where drinks and contemporary modernity as in the case of Lorenzo Macias.
Oscar Wilde, in his excellent aesthetic dialogue "The Decay of Lying" stated: "The sheer modernity of form is always a bit popularizer." No doubt the proposal is strongly Macías high as its formal transmodernity is riddled with the secular tradition of Galician culture.
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MUSIC THAT WAS TO BECOME PAINTING *
David Chao Castro
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Jose Lorenzo Macias (Pontevedra) is one of the cornerstones of contemporary Galician figuration, whose national and international exhibitions is supported by institutions and galleries Spanish and Portuguese cities, apart from London, Miami and, above all, New York. However, Macias did not rush to enter the exhibition and commercial circuits, understanding the painting as a more intimate dimension and in need of a guarantee and experimental training was provided only for the years ... Thus before us are libertarian and personal samples of a chore, life choices that require careful analysis and visualization for the sake of his deep emotional content and vital, and who therefore have not caved to the prejudices that so often directed at other hands artistic trails without too much background.
Macias is presented as a narrator plastic born as a storyteller who has in the past its main source theme. Reenacts moments imagined that, being part of history, are known to come by. And irrespective of whether the artist wants to also pay tribute to the great figures of modern and contemporary painting, but rather seems to be a manifest desire to reinterpret the masterpieces, versioned according to modern parameters and conciliators between tradition and modernity. Thus, if Art School Family of Charles IV by Goya and the Demoiselles d'Avignon picasianas are recreated as silent pictorial background extras, sometimes as their studies das Meninas or the Three Graces Rubens chooses his Homenaxe Now for updated and customized in some way, and with the greatest modesty, visual icons converted into such by historians of art. However, its pictorial paraphrase are quite different to those made by Picasso on meninas, or Equipment Chronic or Francis Bacon to name just a few examples, although the analytical starting point may be more or less coincident.
Portraits, nudes, seascapes or still lifes, genre scenes in addition to the theme as Sotomayor and other painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, make their special gallery of timeless moments, with figures in which has been the influence of Romanesque medieval imagery with the most popular bibs souls, and perhaps explains some remnants illustrious sculptures shown in this display figurative, and that therefore away from other loans is sometimes adduced as Botero. And if you previously alluded to the artistic admiration for Velázquez, rubensiana, Goya and picasiana but not least we feel like the baroque Dutch Rembrandt or Vermeer, and above all, the Post-Impressionist, avant-garde novel contributions of Cezanne and Matisse, apologetic as one of painting for painting ... as the very Macías. It is shocking that an artist currently pay such attention to the human being, who is interested to translate various types, and at the same time, and as a result of closer examination, be able to give each one a feeling and an attitude that immediately convey overtones of veracity. This interest in "humanistic" above any other is explaining that street artists in paintings such as transport which is desmaterialice are represented in part to allow us to invade the privacy of the seats.
Macias can not speak without considering the deep metaphorical capacity of his paintings, where such diverse elements as readings bring renewed recurring symbolic. Goya The world is more a point of reference, as are the broad meanings of the Cubist collages or even-why not-so captivating and full of Renaissance and Baroque landmark: the ubiquitous pigeon that evokes peace and harmony between the arts and people, introducing the component positivist also other birds - owls, and birds of good luck, in conjunction with Xeve (Pontevedra), birthplace of his father, forming the bucolic paradise enveloping sensuality and purity of the naked Eve . The woman, as is customary in the tradition of contemporary Galician art is the subject of preferential treatment, and Macias left captivated by this new Danae, like the extensive collection of Las Meninas Velazquez or Goya that have passed majas Galician women to be through his brush. But is the world of folk festivals and traditions, our cultural anthropology, which often stands as the protagonist and justification for each further illustrates painting, either in its most entertaining as well as more violent in its connotations, without ever lacking a sense of passion.
In such a claim from the idiosyncrasies Galician and attachment to land, the memory of a past where people were closely linked to rural areas and seaworthy becomes a constant. Is the time when chickens and other pets traveling with their owners on the bus Cardboard Company, or that cats and dogs had its undeniable libertarian space with people in a relationship of some equality that corresponded with the company mutual faithful. Bustle of people, animals, objects that invoke various stories and feelings ... Can we raise an implicit fear of solitude and, above all, to the absence of memories and daily memory of a people?. It is possible, given that other works are detected and concerns of a more existential, where the passage of time is taken from the reflection that takes on the representation of the clock or the calendar (Table Traballo).
At this point, and taking into account the importance given to that capability Macías symbolic painting, the name and thought of Leonardo da Vinci can not help but flourish, and especially since in their analysis of the paragon of the arts opt for considering music as a "sister painting" our painter, in the same vein, is aware that both music and painting act, in effect, through the harmony and proportion. Do not forget that Macias considers himself a music lover, which is not dedicated, bringing a sense of frustration that has a wonderful safety valve in that burning desire to paint music into some of his paintings (Melody do not study, what paint?) or suggest it as inexcusable atmosphere of much of them (School of Art, Day feira, Cabaret or Ball fascists among others) as a logical invocation of his beloved holiday scenes. But compared to Kandinsky, which focused on the spiritual background of the musical sound, Macías choose to give a role to their own musical performance, the musician can be done with the magnetism of the notes (aspect intimate) and collaborate with other peers (holiday character) to form magical and unforgettable moments.
Human figures, animals, miscellaneous items ... Macias is primarily a painter of scenes possible, that like the complete filling of the pictorial space into a real horror vacui. Is aware that such a transmission power resource suggestions, especially those who claim the party (Dia FEIR), dance (Dance fascists), fun (School of Art) or the allusion to the dream world (I soños). Full are also still lifes and still lifes (Still Life), although in this case the picture is not so much a piece of reality-either larger spatial or temporal-but on the contrary, the artist starts this time of a presentation carefully planned and, more interestingly perhaps, composed of products, combinations and even formal and stylistic modes that influence the conformation of the still life, or rather silent nature, applying the typical Galician-English terminology. This also leads to argue that, despite the apparent chaos that seems to condition the provision of figurative motifs of his paintings, far from reality, because a second look reveals and art compositions with almost mathematical thoroughness, in the final After geometry is also a latent continuous morphologies at all deny that factor.
Macias is the chromatic surround, overwhelming at times would seem to glow on the strength of their treatment. Warm colors like green and red are present in various shades and hues, although selected touches of blue and white still often contribute their coldness relativized to balance every picture, every proposal. But within its particular conception of the realities that paint, carefully chosen palette Macías, knowing his ability to convey feelings and emotions, although they also leave room for a chance. In any case, if the revelry of street artists point of care, then the flaming red, contrasting with the thick black lines induce transport-emphasize the playfulness of the scene, while the more restrained sense of girls of Xogos also required a tempered chromatic and pastoral reflections.
Macías thus redirects the early expressionist figures like Roualt or Kooning led to its ultimate consequences, and that in the hands of our artist are custom retrofitted to an iconography that highlights the existential Galician momentum, not in vain it wanted to see as the continuation of Os Restorers, combining different trends. However, the fact is that Macias can not be presented as a consequence of Laxeiro, Maside, Colmeiro and Seoane, as it has developed a direction that has points of convergence determined by shared experiences and feelings, but their journey is absolutely personal and full of experiences and unique nuances.
Among the aspects that attracted the most attention of the viewer, and truly captivating views and feelings, you must reference the sophisticated dithering technique used by Macias, making each window to actually be a filter that separates velvety even less if it fits our pictorial fact from fiction, converging in the area of probable dreams. And in that desire for storytelling and capturing memories not always lived, both the figures and the landscapes and the funds generally receive a thorough treatment quickening: if the point is well-defined contours with long curved lines, their strength however lies in expressive games and patches of color tones do not necessarily complementary. It is this latter aspect that introduces the concern of the painter of light and three dimensions, but completely isolated from the concerns of teachers verismo Renaissance to focus on its use in order to biased closer to the viewer.
In the case of Macias perhaps not as interested in the principle of creative evolution in the strict sense as if his constant restlessness and search idea, since the latter is precisely what makes Each new painting is offered as a step in that perennial research on different themes and formal aspects. But it is change for change, but it is better to think in an effort never satisfied to transmit vital new concerns, thoughts and experiences, to express with all the other painting the product of emotion. And all this without forgetting that in every brushstroke, the artist claims the plastic principle above any other element or condition that will have room in their boxes, as Macias knows better than anyone that deaf as well as music, painting is mute poetry also , thus becoming an echo of the classics. Then that talent behind Macías understood as something more spiritual, free from prejudices and stereotypes, when the rock artist in music aesthetics and poetic while the pictorial, and which only leaves room for looks optimistic:
"I dreamed of paint color.
I dreamed of painting the air, fire, water, sun, sea, time,
The feelings and thoughts.
But I never dreamed of a world of wars, destruction
envy, lies, tension, disqualification
and betrayal.
So I created my dream world,
Where color is the language of the imagination, where I try
Convey that enthusiasm to recover lost innocence. "
Macías.
.
MACIAS GALEGO PAINTER
Would ask a teacher of literature in Buenos Aires that non hoxe a writer is asked orixinalidade LLE, pois you all paths are trodden, all procedementos you experienced, and that I passed all subjects ou polo situacións crib. O LLE is requested by enriba of calquera hoxe outra é autenticidade consideration. Teno nesta brooded above, neste longo of Moita razonamento or years and in different circumstances, and just semper dándolle a reason.
O mesmo outras prune applied arts. Being authentic and being truthful, certo, Verdadeiro, xenuíno, do wrong against counterfeit ou, ou do parroting occasional snobbery do sterilizer ..
A autenticidade é o primeiro site that defines Xose painting Lorenzo Macias. A shua work and eat a Espello not that you all recognize what we Galician. Calquera dicir prune "is eu pinto, paint and" ou "eu quixese show is Xenta Mina, na shua visible and no seu imaxe intimate events, you show Deste Xeito." (Of course cousa unha e outra é querela Facel power). Because non touch art (a poem, unha melody, a CADR), which convinces non primeira view, non é authenticated.
Is to art and to create a human capacité beleza, beleza that should produce in us, we have looked upon certain artistic creation, especially unha emotion, intense mood strikes us and puts us wonder lucid nun.
This painting é Macías: authentic. Authentic and real with himself and as Galician. Painting galega nas cores, we issues we Xestas two personaxes seus. Af are as sellers give Praz, as Pescantina, or show das feiras (a topic that locusts do moire Carlos Maside). We maternity, muller figures expressing different classes sociais. We festas, Romario, bodegóns, and see turtles, a variety of topics gives Beiramar, as befits a neighbor da Pontevedra estuary. We as Xenta two sunrises and two solpores. We do festexos you entered. We see families, xantares, dances, pubs. O Noso artist Gosta two groups, das Persian harmoniously together. Hai myths, lendas, offices, ...
All the work of Macias and unquestionably Galician. Nas suas hai and sometimes human figures inxenuidade, tenrura, reflection. E Tamen humor, that sense do pensive mood, expressed no sorriso, na never Gargallo (second definition of Celestino Fernandez de la Vega). Xestas you to Maneiro walking, sitting, nostril, are nous. Verifiable. In short, real. Tamen defined two cores nas e outros obxectos mobles displayed nas homes and we bodegóns. E calquera place in Galicia, ou na Beiramar interior, we atopic and nenos Mulleres coma estes.
We congratulate everyone for having neste country cun da size Macías operator, interpreter do Noso be fair and do Noso exist and act. A sensitive moire notary office and Moita imaxinación, do Noso Xeito of being, or same they reflicte na na expesión cheerful melancholy nenos us, we núos of muller, na na music and dance. All unha do Noso Synthesis. In short, a true artist galego.
Xosé Neira Vilas
Gres, August 2007
Spanish painter plastic macias Pontevedra Galicia
Jose Lorenzo Macias
CURRICULUM Escueta
1979 Work selected in the National Biennial V
Pontevedra Art. (Provincial
Pontevedra)
1993 First exhibition at the Savings Bank
Pontevedra. (Pontevedra)
1994 Sala da Vinci. (Sanxenxo).
Ateneo Corredoira. Combarro. (Pontevedra).
1995 Group Exhibition tribute to Sevilla.
Lane Institute in Vilagarcía Arousa.
(Pontevedra).
Casa de Galicia. Xunta de Galicia (Madrid).
1996 Manuel Torres Marin Museum. (Pontevedra)
Hon. Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra.
(Pontevedra)
Admiral Room 1997. (Lugo).
Gallery Ipanema Park Porto. (Portugal).
Meetings with the music. Circle of Arts. (Lugo).
Showroom Caixa Vigo. (Pontevedra).
Gallery Loios Porto. (Portugal).
Exhibition Hall of the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos. (Santiago
Compostela
1998 Gallery Exclusive. Lisbon. (Portugal).
Rafael Gallery. (Valladolid).
Exhibition Hall of the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos. (Santiago
Compostela)
Galegos Artists Group Exhibition of Nadal. Obelisk Gallery.
(La Coruña)
1999 The Embassy Gallery of Art International Coral Florida. (U.S.)
Gallery Taull. (Barcelona).
Collective. Sarriá Art Gallery. (Barcelona).
Museum of Art Lakeland. Florida. (U.S.)
Group Exhibition Casa Galicia. Xunta de Galicia. (Madrid).
2000 Road Show. Xunta de Galicia. (A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and
Pontevedra
World FineArt. Broadway. New York. (U.S.)
Exhibition "SHOWCASE 2000." Fletcher Fine Arts Gallery. Woodstock.
New York. (USA).
Blackheath Gallery. London. (United Kingdom).
Collective. Agora Gallery. Soho. New York. (U.S.)
Rafael Art Gallery 2001. (Valladolid).
Permanent Exhibition Hotel La Toja. La Toja. Pontevedra.
ECMO. Mondariz-Spa City Council. (Pontevedra).
Exhibition Hall of the Provincial de Ourense. (Ourense).
Altea Art Gallery. (Madrid).
Collective Exhibition of Nadal. Art Gallery Trisquel and Medulio.
Tuy. (Pontevedra).
2002 Art Gallery and Medulio Trisquel. Tuy. (Pontevedra).
Group exhibition on "Las Meninas." Alameda Art Gallery.
Vigo. (Pontevedra).
Chambers of the Palace of the Constables. Historical Museum "The
Merindades. " Medina de Pomar. (Burgos).
Author Poster Presentation of the Major Festivals
Peregrina Pontevedra city.
Caja Rural de Burgos. (Burgos).
Group exhibition at Sala Rafael. "MASTERS OF DRAWING.
(Valladolid)
Exhibition Hall of the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos (Santiago
Compostela).
Sala Murillo. (Oviedo).
2003 Merry Peace Gallery. (Madrid).
Two works selected for the Omma Center of Art Comptemporary
(Greece).
Dua2 room. Vigo. (Pontevedra).
Casa de Galicia. (Madrid).
Room Exhibitions of the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos. (Santiago
Compostela).
Sala Rivas Briones. Villagarcia de Arosa. (Pontevedra).
2005 Room Murillo. (Oviedo).
The poster "FESTA DO COOKED." Lalin. (Pontevedra).
Happy Peace Gallery. (Madrid).
Art Gallery narrows. (A Coruña).
Casa de la Parra. (Santiago de Compostela).
2006 Galeria d'Art 4spais. (Lleida).
Artt Nocturne Knocke. (Belgium)
Happy Peace Gallery. (Madrid).
2007 Room Geraldes da Silva. Oporto. (Portugal).
Exhibition at the Art Fair of Seville. (Sevilla).
Provides a work Cultulares Encounters between GALCI and Barcelona.
Dua2 room. Vigo. (Pontevedra).
Gallery alibi (A Coruña)
Panijel Galeria, Rua Beaubourg (Paris)
III Mostra Mercato d'arte comteporaneo international Agrigento (Sicily,)
Rua A study .- Oliva, 6-Galleries-
Pontevedra-36 001
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