Exhibitions
José Guerrero's horizons at the MAPFRE Foundation
The exhibition landscape is significant at the MAPFRE Foundation, specifically at the Recoletos Gallery in Madrid. From June to the end of August, José Guerrero takes center stage with an exhibition of two decades of photographs in which the Granada native approaches the landscape as a living entity, creating a dialogue between the cultural imprint of the past.
José Guerrero. Apropos of the Landscape , curated by Marta Gili, is part of the official section of the PhotoEspaña Festival and is the artist's first major solo exhibition. Along with the selection of pieces, José Guerrero created a piece in the streets of the Fez medina in Morocco, with the support of the MAPFRE Foundation.
It is essential to start from José Guerrero's principle and his conception of the landscape as an active and dynamic entity, drawing on cultural elements, the collective imagination, and sociopolitical perspectives, interweaving them all in an intriguing way. A snapshot by the artist of Granada involves a relationship with the surroundings, changes, and elements surrounding that place, along with the stratification of time and memory.
Serial creation constructs an imaginary mosaic of varied meanings, and Guerrero doesn't seek repetition, but rather difference, in which a character acting as a character can be both intervening and intervened. Most of them are displayed as polyptychs, rather than isolated images. This way of arranging the series allows him to construct a mosaic of snapshots around a single location, allowing the visitor to embark on a kind of sensory journey.
The tour of the Recoletos Gallery is comprised of 138 photographs and an audiovisual presentation, with a common thread unfolding between representation, experimentation, light, darkness, transparency, documentation, and abstraction. The entire exhibition is divided into six sections: Horizons, Carrara, Archaeologies, Brechas, BRG, and GFK.
To pause before one of the moments captured by José Guerrero means to see/experience a landscape that is not a physical, visible, or palpable matter. It means creating a connection with the emotional and intuitive element, one of those elements that often goes unseen, yet exists with all the possible ramifications it can evoke.
The GFK series is José Guerrero's most recent (2024–present), printed in large format on tapestry or canvas, and emerges from arbitrary errors within the coding of the digital file at the time the photographic portion was taken. A conceptually attentive look at the same texture within works that glimpse the absence of a landscape.
On Tuesday, June 10, Bonart will present the magazine with a start marked by a visit to the exhibitions of José Guerrero, Felipe Romero and Nicholas Nixon, followed by a welcome by Iñaki González (Fundación MAPFRE) and Ricard Planas (CEO of the Bonart group) with a screening of video art by Roc 2 Arte and communication with Luisa Espino, Eugenio Ampudia, Rosalía Banet and César Martínez.
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