Después de la fiesta (After the party)

JOSÉ TRUJILLO (1960). Painter. Trained with Manuel “Manolo” Lima and Carlos M. Tonelli. He has often travelled to New York, Washington and Boston (United States), as well as to Spain and other European countries, exhibiting in various cities. He has obtained prestigious distinctions, such as the Firs Prize for Drawing at the 47th National Salon (1983), and represented Uruguay at the Sao Paulo Biennial (1983). After exploring bad painting and abstract expressionism, his work is linked to aspects of naturalism and realism, albeit from an approach that does not seek a truthful, objective or impartial representation of the real world. In the 80’s, he drifts toward the representation of urban spaces plagued by magic and desolate scenes with shadows resembling those of metaphysical surrealism. His works —which do not seek the lust of color— describe the details of the space they represent, without being bound to the naturalism of a recreation, but passing, impalpably, into subjective territory. Such is the case of Después de la fiesta (After the party IADB#0735), which is the product of a reflective, condensed and solid gaze that goes beyond the simple description. In a way, Trujillo questions the metaphor of painting as mimesis, proposing the fabrication of a reality such as it is perceived by the artist.