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Lot Essay
The present lot is the most representative of the recent stage of the artist that began in 1997. In this same year, the artist moved to a new studio in Chinchon, a small village near Madrid that has preserved the enchantment of a Spanish XVth century village. Lands of old vineyards and olives par excellence, this painting represents the interior of old caves where enormous earthenware jugs filled with wine were placed in order to age. The artist knows how to capture all of the silence and mystery of the grottos including their gesso and stones, each texture illuminated by the warm light given off from candles strategically placed throughout the composition, which reinforce the intimate conception of the work. Guillermo Muñoz Vera, who moved to Madrid at the end of the 70's, is now considered one of the painters most detached from Contemporary Realism. He remains easily identifiable because of his diverse artistic personality and his rich visual vocabulary that embraces everything from urban scenes to still life's, interior scenes, landscapes and portraits. [J.C.]
According to Edward. J. Sullivan, Muñoz Vera "in contemplating the art of the past with intelligence and sensitivity and assimilating theoretical interpretations from our predecessors, developed his own approach to the demands of a visual vocabulary based on the tangible aspects of existence. Even though he is a Chilean artist, he was inspired and almost fed by the XVII Spanish realist tradition and continues to be today.... Without a doubt, Guillermo Muñoz Vera is the greatest representative of the realist conception of the world around us. His way of seeing the world was to examine it from a critical point of view, through extremely detailed and precise interpretations of people, places and things. These observations can be considered like the final result of a long fight for the conceptualization of reality in the visual arts" (extracts from the book Muñoz Vera Exposicion Antologica 1973-2000 p. 1/19 Madrid, Spain).
We are grateful to Carmen Turrero for her assistance in writing the essay for the above lot
According to Edward. J. Sullivan, Muñoz Vera "in contemplating the art of the past with intelligence and sensitivity and assimilating theoretical interpretations from our predecessors, developed his own approach to the demands of a visual vocabulary based on the tangible aspects of existence. Even though he is a Chilean artist, he was inspired and almost fed by the XVII Spanish realist tradition and continues to be today.... Without a doubt, Guillermo Muñoz Vera is the greatest representative of the realist conception of the world around us. His way of seeing the world was to examine it from a critical point of view, through extremely detailed and precise interpretations of people, places and things. These observations can be considered like the final result of a long fight for the conceptualization of reality in the visual arts" (extracts from the book Muñoz Vera Exposicion Antologica 1973-2000 p. 1/19 Madrid, Spain).
We are grateful to Carmen Turrero for her assistance in writing the essay for the above lot