Jesus Barranco Mora

JESÚS BARRANCO MORA (Antequera, Málaga, 1960).
"Dunes".
Mixed media on board.
Signed in lower right corner. Signed on the back.
Measurements: 101 x 101 cm.
Barranco is a young painter from Malaga who is among the best Spanish landscape painters today.
In his tables the light dissolves the matter, makes the atmosphere reverberate again and reproduces that incomparable southern haze. His deep extensions and his dry luminosity of the fullness of the most refined painting, heir of a Díaz Caneja.
His composition is rooted in the most dynamic neoplasticism, in elementalism with a desire for movement, to which he contributes the imbalance of the line that leads to the horizon; his geometry of the buildings and the landscape drinks from the purified sources of suprematism, on which he works with a chromatic range dominated by luminous yellows; and on all this he mounts the plot with a rough treatment of the subject and the power of a superior, almost omnipotent point of view, completed by a decisive brushstroke.
For Barranco, landscape is an excuse for painting, never objectivity or figurativism. In his work, the absence of shadows achieves, without fuss, limited color fields that refer to Rothko, where he makes the walls of buildings float above the misty horizon of the city. In his painting, natural landscapes are articulated in water meanders that are bands of color that refer to the starkest stage of the Support-Surface current.
For this Malaga-born artist, the reality of urban or rural landscapes, devoid of characters, empty of life, are appearances to hide painting-painting. In his paintings, the buildings are appearances of a chromatic and geometric world, the excuse for an exclusively pictorial aesthetic, and the fields are the external motif that contains an internalized perception, converted into plastic abstraction.
The matter is dissolved in light and this is sifted into subtle yellows to provide the viewer with the beauty inherent in all works decanted and refined by intelligent mastery.