Jesús Zurita was born in Ceuta, Spain, in 1974 and he is based in Granada. His work fluctuates between the limits of landscape figuration and narrative abstraction, he expands his pictorial universe in canvases and mural installations that allude to and build a narrative of strangeness. The narrative structures of his compositions imitate some of the graphic-narrative systems of comics and graphic novels, but he alters them in such a way that he babbles rather than says, an art of insinuation like “nature” itself, where mastery, virtuosity and mystery reign.

Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Granada, Jesús is a prolific artist and an advocate of drawing. His works are made of simple and precise strokes, with ink and brush, and frequently feature the presence of tangled vegetation that surrounds the observer. Influenced by minimalism, he gives special importance to planes and the two-dimensional reading of these planes, and uses them to configure subtle scenographies in the spaces where they are exhibited. .

The personal language of this artist combines the organic, the viscous, and geometry, to produce dreamlike spaces in which he rethinks representation as staging and the incorporation into the pictorial of a narration but also silence, an almost eerie silence, that speaks of a certain reverential respect for the depths of the forest, combined with an interest in its biology.

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