“Horror vacui” at JM Gallery

I want this war to be more peaceful: Petit Salon Français, by Andalusian artist Jose Medina Galeote (Gerona, 1970), was inaugurated on September 17 at JM Gallery.

Galeote examines and analyzes pictorial elements from his approach to other languages such as photography and video, which he combines without stylistic prejudices or ties. Highlighting the making process of artworks is a must for him.

The artist proposes in this new project a recreation, within the gallery,of the museum-graphic model of ancient French halls, saturated environments –horror vacui– in which paintings from that age were exhibited, covering most of the walls. This space that was dedicated to the reflection and contemplation, sometimes became creative office, workshop, editorial department, and it even worked as ideal site for literary creation, music and other artistic expressions.

I want this war to be more peaceful… is focused on the contemporary reality of accumulation and saturation in terms of information received from different media and platforms: visual, textual, virtual orsonorous, all of them linked to certain knowledge models. The artwork (environment) turns out to be a huge metaphor of our world, using a past model as pretext to contextualize own ideas coming from an environment related to painting or drawing, core disciplines in his work.

Last year, Galeote showcased the exhibition Artista invisible dispara at MalagaCAC,and it’s somehow related to the present display, as well as project Studio #10, developed at AntequeraReal Colegiatain 2010. Petit Salon Français puts together a series of paintings, drawings, artist book and different publications which invite to the personal making of an itinerary, setting historic parallelism with communication and dialogue spaces that existed a century ago, French halls. And it can all be admired from the comfort of armchairs.

The exhibition will be open to viewers through November 12.

JM Gallery

Duquesa de Parcent, 12. E 29001 Malaga

www.galeriajm.com