Jano Muñoz

JANO MUÑOZ (A Coruña, 1971).
"The age of incommunication", 2005.
Previous painting for the Abanca mural.
Oil on canvas.
Signed on the front and titled on the back.
Measurements: 73 x 92 cm; 83 x 102 cm (frame).

In this composition, resolved in hyperrealistic language but carrying a certain degree of mystery, Jano Muñoz exhibits a virtuous handling of the brush and the sense of space. The different characters that make up the interior of this home do not look at each other. Each one remains withdrawn in his own thoughts. Their ages are different, as are their dreams and sorrows. The penumbra, which denotes a bold use of chiaroscuro, accentuates the expressiveness of the faces and the emotional charge of the atmosphere.

With an early vocation for art, he began his training at the Pablo Picasso School of Arts in his hometown in 1986, and six years later he graduated in the specialty of volume techniques. On that same date he held his first exhibition in that center and continued in other cities of Galicia, until he moved to Barcelona, where he soon managed to get his work to be set and projected, after exhibiting in the Sala de Arte Joven de la Generalitat de Catalunya and in La Caixa, in the city of Barcelona. He participates in the VI edition of the prestigious Mostra de Unión Fenosa in 1999. He wins a prize in the selection called Twenty-five young artists of Catalonia and is a finalist in the Kronenbour prize in Barcelona. Lately, his painting has been exhibited in Italy. Jano Muñoz's painting is conceptual, reflective, from an intense reasoning on geometric structures. His landscape painting is immersed in hyperrealism, whose maximum Spanish figure is Antonio López García, although the Galician is more sober in color and gives the volumes an intensity of polyhedrons in space, which add mystery to his chromatic results, in grays and ochers, deliberately falsifying the perspective. It can also be an exercise of secant strokes and lines, as a constructive structure, of great simplicity and beauty. VI Mostra Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, 1999. Individual exhibitions- 2009 Moret Art espacio- Fundación Caixanova [Vigo]- Casino del atlántico- Casa de Galicia de Madrid- El Correo Gallego [Santiago]- Ayuntamiento de A Coruña- Sala de "la caixa" [Barcelona]- Sala de arte joven de la generalitat de cataluña [Barcelona]- Sala de cultura "tanxedoira"- Sala de exposiciones "hércules coruñés"- Ayuntamiento de oleiros- Ayuntamiento de arteixo- Circo de artesanos de a coruña- Escuela de arte "Pablo Picasso".