J. M. Guerrero Medina
La Guardia de Jaén, 1942
José María Guerrero Medina is a self-taught painter and sculptor who throughout his extensive pictorial career has developed his own language closely related to neo-figuration. His treatment of the figures manages to externalize the intimacy of the characters. He deconstructs them in order to reveal their interior and thus reconstruct their humanity, creating penetrating images, of an almost anguishing force, that connect with the intimate world of the spectator.
His landscapes are treated in an equally expressive way. With material and energetic brushstrokes, he makes reality disappear to create a language that is the fruit of his feelings and sensitivity, using a palette in which earthy, gray and ochre tones stand out, accentuated with spots of bright colors.
His themes are varied. From landscapes or portraits to tragic episodes of history, such as exile during the post-war period or executions by garrote vil. In all cases they are always treated far from conventionalisms and with an enormous will to generate a deep reflection on the human being.
Guerrero Medina has been widely recognized both nationally and internationally, being an especially relevant artist since the last decades of the last century, and many of the most important critics in Catalonia have written about his work. He has been exhibiting at Sala Parés since 1999.