Horizonte de sucesos

Event Horizon / Jesús Galiana

There is an inertia in our lives, a web of urgencies that wraps the mind in a paranoid matrix. And yet, even if only intermittently, we all have moments when, whether through calm or storm, consciousness appears and imposes itself.
Event Horizon by Jesús Galiana is a painting exhibition, but also a narrative and the testimony of a radical conversion.
Jesús Galiana, draftsman and publicist, descends into the abyss upon being diagnosed with Parkinson's at age 39.
After a period of denial and compulsive self-medication, Galiana decides to abandon his treatment, putting his life at risk.
I don't want to reveal too much; I invite you to come and meet Jesús and his work, both resonating at the same extremely awake and honest frequency, all surrounded by an intelligent sense of humor.
Galiana conceives of painting as what happens in that intermediate place between abstraction and figuration, at the frontier where dreams and the unconscious pass.
For the canvas to become an event horizon, it is necessary to "be present" throughout the entire process and to renounce the tricks, fears, and expectations of a more rational and planned painting.
It is difficult to separate the process of painting that in Galiana occurs synthetically; certainly one perceives the echoes of a visionary experience, but clearly the craft of years of drawing must more or less silently come into play.
We invite you to come and discover this particular horizon; it seems to us a good moment to dust off a question that, though it may cause a certain discomfort, is inevitable to ask: the question of transcendence.
A big embrace from the courtyard of Valverde.

Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart