MIRAGES

These large format photographs not only reproduce the real world but they transform it and they are themselves a tool for artistic creation as it can be seen in the black and white choice: the color of unreality and dreams, the geometric abstraction, grids in the road surface, curving lines from domes and marine waves, vertical lines from street lights and trees; the texture, stains, blueprints, light spots, creating a lyrical and mysterious environment. All this combination forms mirages of great poetic expressivity where heaven and earth can be turned upside down to create a game where reality and fantasy are confused.

The motifs and ways to deal with photography, together with the feelings of the artist, show his obsessions. Which are Jóse Luis’s obsessions? Maybe one of them appear under the shape of a bicycle, symbol of movement, of constant search, of pedaling through familiar urban landscapes, where the glance meets surprising images in the daily corners.

It is José Luis first exhibition, but it is already a matured work, because if we harbor from childhood a dream, José Luis’ one is to make photos. Due to that it is not surprising his high technical and artistic level, his meticulous work and his perfectionism. He achieves an original work that enriches photography’s current panorama, a form of expression that he lives with passion, because, as Marc Roboud says “to take photos is to taste the life, every moment, intensely”.