Artist

Jesús Gutiérrez Aparicio (Granada, 1982) is an artist who trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Granada, graduating in 2005.

After completing his studies, he began a period of self-directed artistic development that earned him mentions and awards in various visual arts and literature competitions, until he moved abroad in 2009.

Back in his hometown, he resumed his creative work with renewed intensity.

His painting captures living figures, human or animal, in settings that move between distinctly Eastern references and a modern urban aesthetic of graffiti and concrete growing over old and delicate stucco and arabesque decoration without completely burying them.

His gaze also turns to ruins, which he portrays as the remains of an ancient world, drawn to their seemingly endless capacity to evoke times past.

He works meticulously with water-based media. He builds a solid drawing as the foundation on which to develop the beauty of the textures offered by different surfaces: noble materials, traditional decoration, ashlar stone, brick, ceramics, fabrics… as well as the most ordinary elements.

These are paintings in which a profound nostalgia predominates, yet one filled with affection and admiration for the everyday. What Lorca described as «the aesthetics of small things» is, for those who know it intimately, the soul and heart of Granada.