JOSÉ GUERRERO

JOSÉ GUERRERO - Barragan #05

Technique: Pigment print on cotton paper. Archival pigment print on cotton paper

Artist Biography: Granada, Spain, 1979 Lives and works between Madrid and Rome. José Guerrero, trained as a technical architect, decided to turn his career around in 2002 to devote himself exclusively to photography. Since then he has received awards and grants such as Purificación García (2008), Generaciones (2008), Iniciarte (2007 and 2010), Manuel Rivera (2011), and Pilar Citoler (2017), among others. He has also been artist-in-residence at the College of Spain in Paris (2008) and the Spanish Academy in Rome (2015-2016). He has commissioned works for the MUSAC and the Banco Santander Foundation, and his work is part of collections including: the Bank of Spain, the Mapfre Foundation, the Amon Carter Museum and the JP-Morgan Chase Art Collection. Likewise, he has presented his work in solo exhibitions such as: After the Rainbow (Centro de Arte Alcobendas, 2015), Roma (Galería Alarcón Criado, 2017), Paisajes del límite (with Nico Munuera at the Museo Patio Herreriano, 2019-2020), José Guerrero: 2002-2020 (Sala Vimcorsa, 2020) and BRG (Galería Alarcón Criado, 2021), among others. In 2019, the monograph José Guerrero / Trabajos-Works 02-20 (Ed. UCO + RM) will be published, which traces the artist's career through the series in which his work is structured. The Mapfre Foundation will host in 2025, in Madrid and Barcelona, a solo exhibition that will bring together works from throughout his career. José Guerrero's work revolves around the representation of landscape and our perception of it through the photographic image. His work is structured in series that the artist develops in places that somehow are part of our imaginary. He is interested in situating himself in borderline spaces, between the rural and the urban, the document and the abstraction, the particular and the universal, the present and the past, painting and photography. A fundamental characteristic of his work is the specific use he makes of image sequencing, as well as of light and color as structural elements of the work.