Art. The painter and singer Juan Ros left a trail of rural oil paintings with his bold look when he died, on display until February 28 at the Torre Pacheco Library
Juan Ros, painter, singer and teacher, left a big hole, like those left by peerless characters. When he left last summer, the artist had already agreed to the Torre Pacheco library for the exhibition of his latest oil paintings, a late look at La Hortichuela, the town of his parents and grandparents, a reunion with the landscapes of his childhood seen with the peculiar ‘Juan Ros filter’.
Until February 28, you can see that series of bucolic sets that exude the irony and criminal frown of the lead singer of Malezas, his folk punk band, giving free rein to the provocative and irreverent mariachi he carried inside. A fusion of José Alfredo with Chavela and Almodóvar, who screamed his head off with Sara Montiel songs, rumbas, tangos and, when he got too soft, pure George Moustaki to embrace immigrants from the Mediterranean or raped women.
Unclassifiable, provocative and tender at the same time, although he described himself as “very nocturnal and very buggy”, he achieved what every artist longs for: a line recognizable from a distance. It is a good idea to take that last walk hand in hand with the artist through his land, which he portrays with its prickly pears, snakes, voles, trees inhabited by owls, the profile of the Cabezo Gordo and some horses that will be covered with the flag of the LGBTI collective. Flashes of the country’s nightlife on the move, with its touch of cruelty and mystery.
“He worked on the visual metaphor and developed an ability to observe life, which allowed him to condense 60 minutes of a film in one look,” says the curator of his exhibitions, Antonio García Jiménez, about the collection of oil paintings inspired by the favorite cinema of Juan Ros. Friends since high school, I knew the creator of characters like the ‘Niña del Trasvase’, who flew over the troubled channel in her works, or the ‘Niña del Galipote’, born from the ‘green soup’ of the Mar Menor. . His sharp irony helped him invent John Malalluvia, that farming legend of the plane that breaks through the clouds so it never rains in Murcia. Part of this ‘bestiary’ of the artist, who won a Rendibú prize from LA VERDAD, can also be seen in this latest exhibition at the Library.
None of the hooliganism of his ‘showman’ facet penetrated his painting. Juan Ros approached his work as “debtor of a broad visual education”, says García Jiménez. Of course, always “playing to find no boundaries,” he reminds him.
Source: La Verdad
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