BISEL ART GALLERY. JOSE LUIS ANGULO. 'MEETING PLACES'.

THE SILENCES OF A HAPPY PAINTER

The silences in José Luís Angulo’s work are the spaces that define the painting for us, they identify us with it and through them we peer into its gaze. His silences are extensive patches of colour, chromatic masses that dominate our vision of the work at first. Also, in some of them, these silences can be the “non-colour” – his empty spaces of paint are his plastic elements to enter his landscapes.

José Luís explains this artistic decision in his interest in provoking opposition, contrast with the landscape, volume, objects, clearly identifiable motifs, even atmospheres; but also in his “sounds”, those small chromatic masses that he incorporates as instruments to create rhythm in his compositions, providing them with a vital tension between spaces, colours and objects. It reminds me of a quote from RM Rilke when talking about Cézanne, who said that “painting is something that happens between colours, how they must be left alone so that they define themselves completely.”

If we follow the career of this artist, we see that little by little he has been stripping himself of an intense gaze and a desire to reflect the whole landscape, creating works where the maturity of his art is reflected in a jovial inspiration, a spontaneity brimming with luminosity. And here I must speak of another of his qualities, which is the happiness that his works transmit.

For me, José Luís is a happy artist, who faces his work with humility and is willing to learn, but also to enjoy the act of painting itself, satisfied with letting himself be caught up in the colours and apprehending nature with freedom. The chromaticism, the play of tones, the effectiveness of his compositions, everything overflows with joy, satisfaction and transmits with strength and brilliance that intimate joy of painting.

Moments of happiness that he transmits to us and for which we who contemplate his works are grateful.

Flora Molina Pantiga

 

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