{"id":13988,"date":"2024-06-17T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfajar.es\/?p=13988"},"modified":"2024-11-17T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T15:51:08","slug":"exposicion-cayetano-romero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfajar.es\/en\/exposicion-cayetano-romero-2","title":{"rendered":"“Miscellany”, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Molina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
From June 28 to August 30 you can visit the new exhibition in the Sala Alfajar. Sensitivity, pastel tones, ports and markets define these paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Molina’s painting moves between the figurative and the abstract, with a very personal touch. The exhibition will be open from June 28 to August 30, next to the Cathedral, at C\/ C\u00edster, 1, door 2, M\u00e1laga.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Molina works with pastel colors and figures that become increasingly simpler, but no less recognizable. He likes the harmony of colors and softness in these, but he also plays with textures, using the spatula a lot to create reliefs. He is inspired by the sea of \u200b\u200bhis hometown, by coastal spaces, markets and stalls, reflections and symmetries to create his paintings. He takes photographs and then simplifies them, giving them his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n
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J.M. Molina Castro questions the act of seeing, unlearns it to relearn it, thus placing himself in the moments prior to when we all agreed to call reality what was represented before our eyes. Thus, to deal with matter in its most varied forms, with chance, with technique and with history, the artist, Molina Castro, strips his gaze of unnecessary ornaments, prejudices, and superfluous fashions in order to be able to look as he does and that we can all learn from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joaqu\u00edn Nebro (2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is nothing strident in Jos\u00e9 Manuel Molina’s the painting. The magnetism of his work is based on a subtle combination of contrasts contained within a range of similar chromatic nuances, preferably cold, complemented by some note of warm color that acts as a center of visual attraction. This chromatic approach evokes a Mediterranean environment although always filtered by a rigor in moderation in tone and chromatic saturation. The execution of his painting is manifested in almost flat chromatic islands, treated with a spatula, with material generosity and with a contained vigor as if he wanted to hide the graphic gesture, although his \u201ccalligraphy\u201d is evident when proposing a visual journey that incites an exhaustive inspection of the work. His compositions, although moving in the field of figuration, owe more to a concern for rhythm, tensions, measured contrasts and balance, than to an approximation to visual reality. In that sense, he does not hesitate to represent fragmented objects, sometimes almost unrecognizable. He is more interested in the impact that a fragment of a ship or building produces in an area of \u200b\u200bhis composition than in the realistic description of the object itself. In other words, his work is conceived within the field of abstraction, although he uses figurative references, perhaps as a strategy of initial approach to the spectator, as a wink of complicity that helps the spectator position himself before the unpublished work. Based on what has been described so far, and taking into account that in Jos\u00e9 Manuel Molina’s painting the subjective and emotional aspects predominate more than the objective ones, it would be appropriate to classify him within expressionism, although the coherence and originality of his style make any attempt to pigeonhole him within a certain trend risky. Jose Angel Ruiz (painter)<\/p>\n\n\n
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