JOSÉ LUIS SERZO
ALBACETE, 1977
José Luis Serzo is a multidisciplinary artist born in Albacete in 1977 and currently based in Madrid. His work has been highlighted and recognized above all for his large-scale exhibitions. His work is not limited to the simple exhibition of his paintings, Serzo gives shape and life to a careful staging where all kinds of disciplines (painting, drawing, objects, photography, sculpture, video, literature …) have a place to tell stories where reality and imagination go hand in hand in an aesthetic universe full of a very personal symbology.
His work has to be taken as a full time cultural exercise. It is not only the viewing of his paintings, which although it already brings us closer to his particular creative world and allows us to recreate ourselves in his technique and the symbolism of his message, it is only a part of a much broader set, a set that is completed with texts that narrate each of his series, with an explicit story in each of his paintings and that already work by themselves, with drawings, photographs or videos that introduce us into a series of surreal stories where the artist leaves us his particular vision of reality.
Serzo’s work is a lyrical journey full of hope, a hymn to life through imagination and fantasy. José Luis believes in a better and more humane world and transfers that desire to his work in an almost childish way but with a completely mature content. He builds worlds that transcend reality, and far from being a refuge from a hostile panorama dominated by pessimism and violence, these worlds try to be a positive alternative, a hopeful platform from which to approach and transform art and even life.