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Under the abstract appearance of this work by Jesús Velasco there is an underlying specific reference to reality, to what has been lived or to travelled scenarios, like blurry photographs that evoke without showing. Velasco is interested in colour and light and both elements coexist in this composition which is quite a distance from his main work and the series that he painted that same year, Cities & Citizens. In it, the everyday, the urban, the imprint of the human, the house and the city, were the leading figures in pictures in which the figurative reference was evident, in some cases more than in others because it is not realism what he pursues with his painting but reality itself. In this work, that reference almost disappears completely in the eyes of the viewer. Moreover, there is no drawing, just spots of colour that overlap in a chromatic composition forcefully but without stridency. Colours appear softened, almost watery, somehow surrounding the centre of the picture in which the only straight lines appear, forming a kind of grid. As in his more realistic pieces, this painting by Velasco evokes a time and space, not without a certain melancholy, in which man evolves. If in other creations it was the cities, cars, people, kitchens and inhabited spaces that were drawn or silhouetted, now this grid which he placed in the centre of this picture may perhaps be a window from which he invites the viewer into his everyday life.
Alicia Ezker Calvo