- The exhibition celebrates two decades of this artist’s project, which combines formal purification and ethical reflection.
- It can be visited from this Friday until 29 June during the usual opening hours of this exhibition space.
From this Friday until 29 June, the Atarazanas del Grao in Valencia will be hosting the exhibition ‘Jesús Manuel Moreno. 20 years of La Línea Blanca’, which commemorates two decades of a project developed by this artist from La Mancha.
‘La Línea Blanca’ is an aesthetic proposal marked by formal purification and the tension between matter and emptiness, a conceptual space where Jesús Manuel Moreno articulates his reflection on the lack of communication that defines our contemporary society.
This proposal, which began in 2005 with the work ‘Muanrafak’ and which opens the exhibition, constitutes both an aesthetic evolution and an ethical declaration on the role of art in the contemporary world. His creative philosophy is based on a profound conviction: art is a way of life, a tool for revelation and a means of resistance in the face of existential emptiness and single-minded thinking.
Although rooted in Valencian tradition, Moreno has shaped a personal language in which the everyday becomes a testimony of our times. Since his return to Valencia in 2007, the city, its light and its inhabitants have also become the subject of critical and poetic contemplation.
In ‘La Línea Blanca’, the white background is not a neutral or decorative resource but a symbol of the existential voids of contemporary society – the lack of communication, loneliness or the loss of the spiritual. Faced with the excess of stimuli and the superficiality of hyperrealism, his painting suggests rather than imposes, leaving the viewer to complete the image and the meaning. This tension between figure and void, between the spoken and the silent, structures all his recent work.
The exhibition can be visited until 29 June during the usual opening hours of the Atarazanas, i.e. from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00, and on Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 14:00.