Jose Manuel Chamorro

ARTIST STATEMENT

Since always, along with the landscape or objects, I have been interested in the human face in which light reveals a unique subjectivity of experiences and emotions, a condensed and defined personal history in facial features.

Following this interest I have made a series of portraits, in the pursuit of which I have come to discover that for many human beings their facial expression was broken by pain, frustration, exclusion, violence, etc. This breakdown of the face came to the fore in my interest, giving me a feeling of tenderness that has led me to carry out the work generically FACES WITHOUT A FACE. For which, I have developed geometric shapes in which a face is hardly intuited because it lacks the essential elements that constitute it.

Flat shapes in which the stroke and color are applied directly on a neutral background or in some cases the suggestion of solitude or isolation in a desolate space.

This work, which has taken me several years, I have done in oil, watercolor, drawing, engraving and collage, and even combining two or more of these techniques, on wood, canvas, burlap, paper, cardboard, with their primers and textures.

Recently, in an experimental phase, I have worked on sculptures usi...

Chamorro studied in Madrid with the visual artists: Manuel Gutiérrez Navas -Concha Ma Gutiérrez Navas, Lorenzo Frechilla, Antonio Manso, Eloísa Gil Peña, Enrique González.
At the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts. Accademia di Belli Arti Pietro Vannucci, Perugia, Italy. Fine Arts Circle of Madrid.
He has been a draftsman of the Post Office Philately Section. He has taught drawing and painting in his studio.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2020 Salón de Arte Museo G. de Maeztu, Estella-Lizarra.
2019 Centro Cultural Villa de Móstoles.
- Casa Museo Julio Escobar, Los Molinos (Madrid).
- Casa de Cultura de Villamañán (León).
- Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid).
2018 Quai Des Livres Galerie, Bordeaux.
- Casa de Cultura Fresno de la Vega (León).
- CMI El Llano, Gijón, Asturias.
2017 Auditorio San Francisco, Ávila.
- Galería de Arte Zaca, La Granja de San Ildefonso, (Segovia).
- Sala Antonio Pérez. Diputación de Guadalajara.
- Casa de Cultura Villademor de la Vega (León).
- Sala Domus Artis El Toboso (Toledo).
- Fundación Vela Zanetti, León.
2016 Posada de los portales. Tomelloso.
- El Posito. Campo de Criptana.
- Sala Domus Artis. El Toboso.
2015 Librería Cocheras-Coliseo, San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid).
2014 Sala Municipal de Exposiciones San Marcelo. León.
2013 Cuevas de Hércules. Toledo.
- C.C. La Despernada, Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid).
- Gavota Art Gallery. Miami.
2012 Restaurante “La Malvasía”. Villanueva del Pardillo (Madrid).
- Hitos, La Casona Fundación Carriegos. León. - Centro Cultural, Alpedrete (Madrid).
2011 San Salvador de Palat del Rey, León.
2010 Casa d...