Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Drawings by the artist José María Díez at the Casa de Las Tejerinas

The inauguration of the exhibition will take place next Thursday, August 3, at 6:00 p.m., and can be visited until August 16.

The Estepona City Council informs that Room 2 of the Casa de Las Tejerinas, located in the Plaza de las Flores, will host from next Thursday, August 3, at 18:00 hours, an exhibition of oil paintings and drawings by the Extremadura artist José María Díez.

In this exhibition a total of sixteen oil paintings and two graphite drawings are shown. In them, the rural world and nature (also embodied in the still life) take center stage, but without forgetting some urban scenes of places where the author has lived. His passion for interpreting light brings us scenes from his native Extremadura, from Norway, from the mountains of Cadiz and Malaga and even from his own inventiveness, in a very personal vision of classical landscape painting.

The exhibition can be visited until August 16 from Tuesday to Friday, from 09:00 to 20:00 hours, and Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00 hours, with free access.

José María Díez (Almedralejo, Badajoz, 1966) is a Spanish artist who lives and works in Cadiz. Since childhood he has been attracted by the arts. He graduated as an interior designer at the School of Applied Arts in Mérida, and dedicated himself professionally to this activity until 2011. During this period, his projects often include large-format murals, and he combines design with painting.

Although with parentheses dominated by informalism and arte povera, since his beginnings in art he has been interested in the landscape, both rural and urban. His natural surroundings, as well as the architecture that attracts him so much, play a predominant role. In them, the detail, very poetically interpreted with a sure, clean and agile brushstroke, is only an anecdote in the painting, where the light and the taste for the transited space prevails.

In 2012 he moved to Cadiz. Since then he has dedicated himself exclusively to art. Parallel to his oil production, he decides to delve into realism, expressing light and space in a different way. To do this, he forgets color and investigates the technique of graphite powder interpreted in the black way, developing a plastic language endowed with a poetry both schematic and full of nuances.

His work has been hung, among other places, in Madrid, Seville, Badajoz, London, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca, Algeciras and Cadiz.