José Agorreta

JOSÉ AGORRETA (Pamplona, 1963).
"Landscape of the memory".
Oil on board.
Signed and titled on the back.
Measurements: 122 x 110 cm; 138 x 126 cm (frame).

José Agorreta's work offers a personal and intimate vision of the urban landscape, seeking to capture the essential spirit of each space. His compositions, devoid of human figures and with minimal representation of natural elements, focus on the depiction of urban and industrial elements. Abandoned factories, unserviceable machinery, scrap metal, demolished buildings or even domestic objects become the protagonists of his landscapes.

José Ignacio Agorreta began his exhibition activity in the nineties with a pictorial theme close to postmodernism. He formed a group called Grupo + 4 together with Koldo Sebastián, Félix Ortega and Juan Belzunegui, with whom he held two group exhibitions in 1994 and 1995 at the Pamplona Citadel. The author has made more than fifty personal or joint exhibitions. Of all of them, "Sastraka - Maleza" stands out for its book format, in which he shared space with three other artists from different fields, namely: the writer Pello Lizarralde, the musician Imanol Úbeda and the filmmaker Imanol Rayo.