Discover the contemporary work of José Manrubia

Exhibited since 2002 in Seoul, Madrid, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Arles, Bayonne, etc...

Present at FNAC and the Museo de las Ventas, Madrid

Creator and artistic director of the FlamencA festival, Arles

Winner of the Saint-John Perse Prize 2022 for the book written by with the writer Isabelle Cousteil

Practitioner at l’Enda, National School of Art, Paris

Member of the Paris Biennale

Freeing yourself from the academic lesson, freely exploring the landscapes of its aesthetic universes, different and similar to those of your own. that time. Perhaps a fine connoisseur of disordered imaginations.

A pictorial aesthetic, intensely linked to the living, to nature. the earth, the humanities who inhabit it, its beauty, its mirages. The eternal relationship of the passage of the impalpable, that of the imagination, of time, of the stars.

« From my first street art actions at the beginning of the 90s, using advertising media and the squats of the colossal megacity of Mexico as a field of intervention, expressing myself in an artistic approach to subversive dimension, to today's work in the workshop, recovering these same poster panels throughout the cities where I stay, live. Treated paper, mounted, neat, revitalized. Paper much more than a support, an accomplice testifying in other dimensions, other states of time, other realities.

My constant questioning pushes me to continue; explore the areas of my daily life, of my imagination, tinged with of dreams and absolutes. Through a figurative pictorial expression using the ballpoint pen as the main medium, or abstract using canvas, fabric, cardboard and always paper. The power of color in its purest intention, the simplicity of of the pen and its minimalism. Monochrome or colorful alchemies, random compositions channeled somewhere giving the final appearance of ageless works with contemporary relief »