Life
is not what we have lived,
but what we remember, and
how we remember it to tell it later.
Gabriel García Márquez |
If, as García Márquez states, “the writer
writes his book to explain to himself what cannot be explained”,
does Jaime José paint for the same reason?
Life is a dream that comes true for those who have the courage
to face it.
Circumstances lead us along different roads, paths that write
the pages of a story. Jaime José has discovered that
the only truth, is the reality that surrounds him; it is there
that his source of inspiration is born, influenced by sub-consciousness,
loaded of experience and feelings derived from his presence
on earth.
Reviewing history and art, we discover that artists have reacted
to their surroundings, influenced by their time, society and
cultural roots. With this, they accomplish to create art works
that before the eyes of any viewer generate reflections and
emotions that feed our spirit.
Such is the case of Jaime José, who, with a personal
oeuvre of figurative and magical characteristics plus surreal
subtleties, provokes a legitimate, unique and unrepeatable
reaction on us, for the individual is the only one capable
of providing significance to it and of creating a diversity
of possibilities from one’s own life facts and that
for each public it could be a different interpretation.
For Le Corbusier “the house should be the container
of life, the machine of happiness” and it is precisely
in his house that our artist finds one of his main inspirations
“his woman”. Jaime José prints in his paintings
the diverse scenarios and roles that women play in men’s
lives, in their kid’s lives and before society.
The social context in which the artist’s life develops,
cannot be separated from his artistic creation, and it is
under this prospect that we find numerous symbols in the artist’s
work: trees, crosses, stairways, wings, bee-hives, circles,
candles, stripes, spheres, butterflies, watermelons, whipping-tops,
ribbons, figures, masks, dolls, threads, little houses, etc.
His alphabet is large and varied for an artist with a passion
and in desperate need to express himself and it is where each
one of these elements reaches a significance of its own.
While symbols provide him of identity it will be his pictorial
production which with a contemporary and universal pitch which
will surpass limits and borders and facing the diversity of
a global world, not yet settled, his comprehensive language
comes to us as a refreshing balm for the spirit.
Maybe his loves, his life experiences, his joys and sufferings,
find a very special place in his work, but it will be the
observed viewers through their senses who will have the right
to agree or disagree with his work. I find the later a little
improbable for the road traveled by Jaime José in this
life is not a stranger to ours.
Lic. Bertha Cantú
In this show, the artist presents 33 works from his own reflection,
derived from feelings and emotions, lived or “sensed”
in his own surroundings, adorned with a little humor, irony
and some writings, which mixed together become compositions
that invite us to identify our selves with what he proposes
here, expressed Lic. Gerardo Partida, Director of the Museum
of the City of León.
Jaime José was born in Monterrey N.L., Mexico, on September
22, 1942. To the present day, he has participated in 29 solo
exhibitions, including this one and in more than 170 group shows.
| Among his solo exhibitions: |
| Museo Francisco Gotilla |
Zactecas Zac, Mex |
2006 |
| Museo El Centenario |
Garza García N.L. Mex |
2006 |
| Museo de las Culturas ICOCULT |
Saltillo Coah, Mex |
2003 |
| Galería Amart |
Torreón Coah, Mex |
2000 |
| Museo del Pueblo |
Guanajuato Gto, Mex |
1998 |
| Galería Vértice |
Guadalajara Jal, Mex |
1998 |
| Galería 123 |
San Salvador C.A |
1994 |
| Galería Lavosier |
Tours, France |
1991 |
| Group shows: |
| X Festival Cultural de Mayo |
Guadalajara Jal, Mex |
2007 |
| Angela King Gallery |
New Orleans USA |
2007 |
| Galería Art Dealers |
Nonterrey N. L Mex |
2006 |
| Galería Aqua Art Miami |
Miami Beach FL |
2006 |
| Galería Francisco Nader FIA |
Caracas, Venezuela |
2000 |
| Galería ING 5ta Subasta |
Puerto Rico |
2003 |
| Galería Valanti |
Costa Rica C.A. |
1997 |
| Museo de Arte Latino Americano |
Long Beach Cal, USA |
1997 |
| Galería Roberto Martin MIRARTE |
Bogotá, Colombia |
1996 |
| Salón de los Independientes |
Paris, France |
1999 |
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La Ubre
Acrylic on jute
1.00 X 1.00 mts
2007
Luz y Sombra
Acrylic on canvas
1.00 X 1.00 mts
2007
Salón de Baile
Acrylic on jute
1.00 X 1.00 mts.
2007
Casa Grande
Acrylic on jute
1.20 X 1.50
2007
El Pacto
Acrylic on canvas
1.60 X 1.80 mts
2008 |
