José Valencia

JOSE VALENCIA (La Rochelle, France, 1973).
"Sunshine".
Acrylic on cardboard.
Signed.
Presents certificate of authenticity.
Measurements: 86x57 cm.

The muses painted by José Valencia transmit a hedonistic, epicurean attitude, although sometimes filtered by a certain melancholic haze. Advertising aesthetics and poster art, pop art and a purification of geometric essence typical of Art Deco, are some of the formal references that the artist handles to readapt them to his plastic universe. As for his iconographic references, we appreciate explicit winks to the history of art and recurrent filmic quotations: from film noir films of the fifties to veiled evocations of the nouvelle vague. Enigmatic, solitary, elegant and refined ladies, with their needle heels, their pamelas and their baby bangs; but also dreamy women in need of wide spaces in which to explore their imagination.

Painter and illustrator. José Valencia studied at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Llotja in Barcelona. He has held solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, among others: La Tour de Guet, Tresques, France 2013; Galerie Expo1, Montpellier 2013; Tresques Art Festival 2013; Galerie Rue privee, Montpellier 2012; CEPO Perpigan 2012; AFF N.York, AFF Los Angeles; Villa del arte Barcelona 2011, AFF London, AFF Singapore, AFF Amsterdam ; FAIM-Feria de arte Independiente de Madrid 2011; Apollo Gallery, Dublin (Ireland 2000) .... He held his first solo shows at Daliatessen in Figueres (Girona, 1999, 2002) and at Pink Gallery in Chicago (2001). His illustrations have been published in Rock deLuxe, Ajo Blanco... His is the logo of the Teatreneu Theater (Bcn).