Jesús Barranco

Jesús Barranco

He was born in Antequera (Málaga) in 1960. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos, specialty of Painting. Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1993. Barranco is a young painter from Malaga who ranks among the best Spanish landscape painters today.

In his tables, light dissolves matter, makes the atmosphere reverberate again and reproduces that unique southern haze. Its deep extensions and its dry luminosity from the fullness of the most refined painting, heir to a Caneja Days.

Its composition is rooted in the most dynamic neoplasticism, in elementalism with a desire for movement, to which it contributes the imbalance of the line that leads to the horizon; his geometry of the buildings and the landscape draws on the refined sources of Suprematism, on which he works with a chromatic range dominated by luminous yellows; and above all this he assembles the plot with a rough treatment of the subject and the power of a superior point of view, almost omnipotent, completed by a determined brushstroke.

Are these canvases carefully stopped temporality or a desire to capture the essence of the city? Is existence stopped in the middle of a wasteland or immateriality what the artist transmits?

For Barranco, the landscape is an excuse to do painting, never objectivity or figurativeism. In his work, the absence of shadows achieves without fuss some limited fields of color that refer to Rothko, where he makes the walls of the buildings float above the foggy horizon of the city. In his painting, natural landscapes are articulated in meanders of water that are bands of color that refer to the most stark stage of the Support-Surface current.

For this man from Malaga, the reality of urban or peasant landscapes, empty of characters, void 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 dissolves in light and this is filtered in subtle yellows to provide the viewer with the beauty inherent in all work decanted and refined by intelligent mastery.

Awards and Distinctions

1.990 III Premio. V Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas óleo. Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social. Cádiz.

1.991 I Premio. VI Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Barcelona.

1.992 II Premio. VII Certamen de Artes Plásticas óleo. Córdoba.

1.993 I Premio. VIII Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Cuenca.

1.994 Accésit XV Certamen Nacional de Pintura Ciudad de Martos (Jaén).

I Premio Paisaje. Premios de Otoño Villa de Chiva (Valencia).

1.997 I Premio. X Certamen Pintura rápida Sot de Chera (Valencia).

I Premio. I Certamen Nacional de Pintura Rápida Vall d’ Uxo. Castellón.

Distinción y adquisición de obra por la XII Edición de la Feria Internacional de Arte Interart´97 (Fondo de obra permanente). Valencia

1.998 Inauguración con exposición individual de la Galería Reding. Málaga.

Distinción adquisición de obra por la XIII Edición de la Feria Internacional de Arte Intarart´98 (Fondo de obra permanente). Valencia.

1.999 Distinción y adquisición obra por el Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Salamanca, para el fondo de obra del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la ciudad. Salamanca.

2.000 Distinción y adquisición de obra por la Junta de Andalucía en la II Edición de la F.I. de Arte contemporáneo, ArteSevilla. Sevilla

Fairs
  • Feria Internacional ArteSevilla´00. Sevilla
  • ArteSevilla’00, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
  • ArtExpo New York ’00, International Contemporary Art Fair. New York, U.S.A.
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.000. London, U.K.
  • Feria Internacional ’00, Artexpo. Barcelona.
  • Feria Internacional Artesantander. ’00, Santander.
  • Feria Internacional Interarte’00, Valencia.
  • Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Nueva York. 2.001 EEUU
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.001. London, U.K.
  • Feria Internacional Interarte, 2.001 Valencia
  • Feria Internacional Arte Madrid. 2.002 Madrid
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.002. London, U.K
  • Feria Internacional Interarte, 2.002 Valencia
  • Feria Internacional de Art Miami. 2.003 EEUU.
  • Feria Internacional de Arte Dublín. 2.003 Irlanda.
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.003. London, U.K
  • Feria Internacional Arte Madrid 2.003. Madrid
  • Feria Internacional Interarte, 2.003 Valencia
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.004. London, U.K
  • Feria Internacional de Arte de Bristol. 2.004 Inglaterra.
  • Feria Internacional de Arte de Dublín. 2.004 Irlanda.
  • Feria Internacional de Art Miami. 2.005 EEUU.
  • Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Nueva York. 2.005 EEUU
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.005. London, U.K
  • Feria Internacional de Arte de Dublín. 2.005 Irlanda.
  • Feria Internacional Arte Madrid 2.005. Madrid
  • Feria Internacional de Arte Essex 2.006. Inglaterra.
  • AFF London, International Contemporary Art Fair 2.006. London, U.K
Artworks