José Guerrero is a photographer from Granada (Andalusia) who lives and works in Madrid. He initially studied to be a quantity surveyor. In recent years, he has also completed a number of video projects.
Some of his series, including Ephemera (2006) and Desert (2006), reflect human action (shown as an absent element) in city sprawl, where the boundaries between the urban and the countryside become blurred. These two works depict property speculation and the resulting loss of natural heritage in raw, bare terms, whilst also drawing attention to abandoned buildings, shown here as 'broken toys' and new ruins, in similar terms to Robert Smithson's Monuments of Passaic (1967). Although these series can be arranged in toponymic order, in some works, the artist adds a further step, by using the editing desk to link similar images from different places in the world (Down Town, 2008). In other cases, he uses the polyptych as a narrative form of construction and exhibition, to help examine things from different points of view, sometimes with very similar images (After the Rainbow, 2015).
Guerrero has said that that his work is hybrid, varying between documentary and abstract photography; as a result, the separate photos do not seem as removed from or as alien to one another. Guerrero has worked in several states in the western USA, using the local tradition of the photographic landscape, with its large uninhabited spaces, which in his exhibitions he sometimes juxtaposes with locations from the Iberian Peninsula. These images, which dwarf the place of issue, contrast with the photographs he took in Carrara and at various Etruscan and Roman ruins in Italy (including Cerveteri, Mount Testaccio and Pompeii), during his scholarship at the Spanish Academy in Rome in 2015, which were laden with memories and details.
Guerrero has held solo exhibitions at the Alcobendas Art Centre (2015) and the Palacio de los Condes de Gabia Exhibition Centre (2013). He has been the beneficiary of grants from Cajasol (2005); Generaciones CajaMadrid (2008); the Spanish College in Paris (2008); Manuel Rivera, 2010); and a scholarship from the Spanish Academy in Rome (2015). He has been awarded the Imagenera Prize for Memory of Andalusia (2010); the Purificación García Award (2008); the Pilar Citoler Award (2017) and the Banca March Photography Award (2017).
José Guerrero is a photographer from Granada (Andalusia) who lives and works in Madrid. He initially studied to be a quantity surveyor. In recent years, he has also completed a number of video projects.
Some of his series, including Ephemera (2006) and Desert (2006), reflect human action (shown as an absent element) in city sprawl, where the boundaries between the urban and the countryside become blurred. These two works depict property speculation and the resulting loss of natural heritage in raw, bare terms, whilst also drawing attention to abandoned buildings, shown here as 'broken toys' and new ruins, in similar terms to Robert Smithson's Monuments of Passaic (1967). Although these series can be arranged in toponymic order, in some works, the artist adds a further step, by using the editing desk to link similar images from different places in the world (Down Town, 2008). In other cases, he uses the polyptych as a narrative form of construction and exhibition, to help examine things from different points of view, sometimes with very similar images (After the Rainbow, 2015).
Guerrero has said that that his work is hybrid, varying between documentary and abstract photography; as a result, the separate photos do not seem as removed from or as alien to one another. Guerrero has worked in several states in the western USA, using the local tradition of the photographic landscape, with its large uninhabited spaces, which in his exhibitions he sometimes juxtaposes with locations from the Iberian Peninsula. These images, which dwarf the place of issue, contrast with the photographs he took in Carrara and at various Etruscan and Roman ruins in Italy (including Cerveteri, Mount Testaccio and Pompeii), during his scholarship at the Spanish Academy in Rome in 2015, which were laden with memories and details.
Guerrero has held solo exhibitions at the Alcobendas Art Centre (2015) and the Palacio de los Condes de Gabia Exhibition Centre (2013). He has been the beneficiary of grants from Cajasol (2005); Generaciones CajaMadrid (2008); the Spanish College in Paris (2008); Manuel Rivera, 2010); and a scholarship from the Spanish Academy in Rome (2015). He has been awarded the Imagenera Prize for Memory of Andalusia (2010); the Purificación García Award (2008); the Pilar Citoler Award (2017) and the Banca March Photography Award (2017).