Jose Flores

Of course the scientific question posed, searches beyond science and has everything to do with man’s very existence, consciousness and ethics. When looking at the paintings, these are the themes you instinctively contemplate. Because of their attractiveness, they do not pose any threat; instead they become more and more familiar. Nevertheless, beneath each painting a concept submerges and expressionism is merely a gesture. It is the elementary link which forms the painting and not just the painting as an expressive form. The viewer will notice many forms which have been linked together in an almost transparent layer of spray.

José had adapted his work which at first was more limited to sculpturing and has moved to painting and water-colors, maintaining the three-dimensional way of thinking as well as bringing reality closer to fiction. Sculptured forms become metaphorical symbols. 

Porte d’entrée, José’s theme of the past few years, scientifically signifies viruses in various forms, entering or making contact with the human body. To José this incorporates the vulnerability of man in his own environment and in the society created by himself.

Maintaining a certain state of mind is what comes next. José aims to lift a concept out of its original connection and allow it to pass through a process of re-discovery, imagery, interlinking, expression and finally placing it in the desired setting, possibly as a metaphor. He is just “a collateral sower”.