When the knowledge of a trade, experience and skill in handling its elements come together, a complete artist like

José Coronel
emerges. This Venezuelan artist has a long career in various fields of art such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, muralism, graphic
design, stained glass and public statuary. He is also a publicist, cultural advisor and teacher, all cultivated in almost forty years of
intense work.

His youthful restlessness and his insistent curiosity led him to study Pure Art at the Arturo Michelena School of Plastic Arts in
Valencia, very close to his hometown and he immediately began his artistic experimentation creating works from the new figuration of
the eighties .

From the nineties he discovers his true path, and decides to break with figuration because he felt much more freedom in the material,
the stain, the stroke and the color, as an expression of totality. It is dedicated to the experimentation with the Pure Color and the
emotiveness of the Gestural

He begins to create a work in which Color as a protagonist helps him to create compositions of free and unconscious expression with
gestural strokes of great dynamism, with spots, dripping and thick lines that give a spatial rhythm to the composition on the canvas,
leaving as consequence pieces with a marked accent of the Abstract Expressionism, particularly in the importance given to the
process and the conceptual element.

With the help of brushes, brushes, sponges, sprays and in recent years, digital compositions, Coronel combines layers and layers of
pigments in a variety of colors in order to study color and light in its multiple edges. This artist likes to break down in a variety of styles
the expressions of bright colors, their contrasts, their composition, see how in one stroke merges with the other and how transparency
is discovered in each represented element.

For Coronel the most important aspects of his work are Color, Transparency and Music, this last element has been with him for a long
time. For him, the symphonic music and particularly, the music of the rock band Pink Floyd are entities that accompany him in his
creative process as a double connection with the unconscious creator.

In the same way that kandisky, Coronel can not separate two absolute abstract conceptions, Kandisky, considered that colors and
sounds were abstract conceptions that made the soul vibrate both the creator and the observer, elements that were capable of
producing a visual impulse Immediate of the senses and the music produced a stimulus that died with silence.

While Coronel starting from the internalization of these precepts composes through each emotive and sentimental trace, pieces with
an important subjective load and open to diverse interpretations such as the coarse understanding of the human being.
INFORMAL FORTUITO Y GESTUAL

José Coronel is relatively young. He was born in 57. He is 54 years old and 34 of versatile and fertile career in the fields of sculpture,
drawing, painting, printmaking, advertising, muralism, stained glass, as well as being a professor, cultural advisor, with extensive
participation in instances directives of culture and the arts, specialized in reconstructing, remodeling and creating large-scale urban
monuments. His pictorial work is versatile, of great formal and technical diversity, with a predominance of the spontaneous, fortuitous
and gestural. He usually uses color spots of informal effects, but under the compositional control of the reason.

Perán Erminy
International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Chapter Venezuela, October, 2010.
POETICS OF THE INVISIBLE

Speaking recently with José Coronel, I noticed in him a strong and energetic will to create that keeps his attention absorbed, even
more than ever, after the trip he made to Europe, between 2011 and 2012. The direct contact with the works of the great masters of
universal art impressed him in such a way that in his current production the impact that experience caused on him is noticed. For
example, the extraordinary engravings (Carceri d'Invenzione) of the 18th-century Italian architect and engraver, Giovanni Battista
Piranesi, induced him to conceive some large-format paintings in which he dispensed with his particular polychrome, but retaining his
abstract style of vital lyricism. In these works, inspired by Piranesi, black, white, gray and blue prevail. From his visual poetics,
Coronel reinterprets the imaginary prisons of Piranesi characterized by dark passageways, steep stairs, spaces of incredible heights
and strange galleries that lead nowhere.

Oriented in its permanent search, in its tireless journey towards the dark and mysterious background of being (its psyche), and the
essence of things (its soul), -like a "journey to the center of the earth" or to the "dark side" of the moon »-, we continue to see
Coronel, with more impetus than before, determined to illuminate, through art, the unfathomable inner world; to bring to the surface,
with a radiant transparency charged with light and color, the essence of the microcosm and the macrocosm, to unveil the hidden side
of reality, to the point of dazzling us to hallucination.

Coronel shows us what is beyond the mere appearance of things. Your creative process is like that, then, a way to enter into another
purely spiritual, mystical and sacred reality.

José Gregorio Noroño

International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Chapter Venezuela, October, 2014.
AN IGNEOUS TREATMENT FOR THE WORK OF JOSÉ CORONEL
The work of José Coronel is a work that gives us energy, vitality. It is full of expansive emotions and multiple feelings that
inhabit the human being, especially those that are more irrational, more free.

It is a painting that can be understood without having a scholarly knowledge because it immediately impacts, it penetrates
through the pores of the spectator to connect with its internal privileges, with all its emotional charge and without any
barrier.

But it is not an easy painting: his work renounces statism, it is dynamic, it is not quiet. Struggle to radiate a vital impulse of
continuous renewal in a time that slides vertiginously, swiftly, and the author at that time wants to accompany us and rock
with joy.

His colors appear full and saturated saturation, present, accompanied by the gesture, are full, forceful, flees nuances or
halftones. They are colors that are now, they are already.

Establishes lineage with New York expressionist abstract painting, but surpasses it by unleashing the values it poses by
taking them to the extreme. All his prints are present in the author, who gathers material and color to offer us a work of
great communicative intensity, of immediate impact by the skilful management of pictorial, material and compositional
resources.

His paintings are like the igneous bird, Phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes. They always mark the resurgence of the
human being and his ability to overcome and succeed through time. Fire that is life, which is a source of creation and
reflection of the passions and wills of the tireless individual. They create a light but insistent, rebellious vital impulse.

The work of Coronel gives us the impression of that intense visual poem that drives the development of humanity.

Joan Esteban De Mercado, Dr. In Art Barcelona, Spain /

José Coronel: contemporary lyrical expressionism

Marisol Pradas S.

José Coronel toured Europe participating in a series of group exhibitions, mainly in Italy, between 2011 and 2012, while
visiting other important countries in the art world such as Spain and France.

In the main museums, he observed the works of the great abstract, realistic, impressionist, expressionist and cubist
masters enriching his already thirty-five year old trajectory "versatile and fruitful in the fields of sculpture, drawing, painting,
engraving, advertising, muralism, stained glass, besides being a professor, cultural advisor, with wide participation in
directive instances of the culture and the arts, specialized in reconstructing, remodeling and creating large-scale urban
monuments "as the art critic correctly points out (also painter) Perán Erminy.

His sensibility as an artist was touched when he met again with Picasso's Guernica and the monumental transcendence of
Venetian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi, among the varied agenda he fulfilled. Therefore, his return
could not be better influenced. He arrived with renewed energies, with lots of ideas and an immense desire to continue as
a creator in the infinite plan of art.

After much creating, of much research, of allowing himself more freedom, about fifteen years ago, he became passionate
about the possibility of combining digital images with his direct intervention in canvas.

"After having experimented in my process of doing things with the different techniques and disciplines in the plastic arts,
drawing, painting, sculpture in its different materials and behaviors, I once again embark on a new language that today we
could say universal how is the digitalization of the image, where the creator has a palette of millions of colors and different
resources and tools to create their own language, "said José Coronel.

Despite the everlasting reflection on the purity of art, history is showing that the best creators can do, in particular, is to
work together with technology, transcending paradigms, and achieving the contemporaneity that it requires in the space-
time that they live .

If he had already been harvesting a work of formal and technical multiplicity, influenced by the spontaneous, the
inadvertent and gestural, in canvases loaded with jets of color and the projection of spaces of light, after his tour of the Old
Continent, he abandoned shyness of the small or medium format, for with shrewd force, to achieve the visual enjoyment of
the great pictures.

Coronel feels it this way: "I build things that do not exist in the chaos of reason to make see what did not exist before in the
real world, but in the creative spaces of my inner thinking cosmos; Evolving from the Genesis of figurative creation to a
much more magical world by its shapes, light and color, achieving through virtual images with the technological resource
of digitalization, opening the window of imagination that transcends beyond the image, time and space”

Digital graphic printing is the pretext. The software provides a background of spot colors that have been previously chosen
by Coronel on your computer. Then there is his display, his movements, his perceptions of what he feels in front of the
printed canvas. It is spontaneity conscientiously.

As Professor Xavier Berenguer concludes in his article Art and technology: a border that collapses: "The computer is
therefore a prosthesis of the mind and, as such, it is available to the artist; in particular, of the artist for whom creativity and
technique constitute two sides of the same coin “.

Light and color in the digitized work intervened by an author create a new language, a new form of expression that must
be completed by a spectator.

What goes inert on the printed canvas, after work in front of the computer, becomes an abstract landscape, contemporary
lyrical expressionism, in the eyes of those who observe and listen to the process of
elaboration of these works, in the own workshop of Coronel, who when creating listens to music, especially to the group
Pink Floyd and to the also musician, researcher and artist, Brian Eno.

In large format, thinking of museums and billboards, the expression of his work has a freedom that helps connect with
color without enigmas. The door is open to grandiosity because that is how life was conceived.

The clarity of his intervention attracts in these dimensions a dream vision, treasured by the fate of color combinations. The
Mayan world with its emerald and coral green, its vibrations orange, fuchsia, gravitational blue, emerge from the ancestors
to tell us magnificent stories of those communication bridges that opened to the gods and were mutilated by time.

Coronel also establishes a connection with digital, a commitment to establish a fair competition with the tool that provides
technology, which feeds with soul and knowledge to achieve harmony and spectacularity. Not in vain it is said that the true
work of an artist is born after twenty or thirty years of researching and producing.

The phallus folds are still present, bathed by jets of loose glaze. They are spouts of power, drunk with behavioral nerves
that correspond to their spiritual search. The silhouette of a breast also appears in her work to show us the beauty and the
pueril need to redefine sexuality, to blur her towards the magic that her creativity brings, her tantric peace, beyond desire.

In all the strokes this plastic artist locates that manifest connection with the cosmos, with the genius of an omnipotent
energy, nothing silent, always mutant, by which to move his path in faith.

And although we do not mention religion, the encounter with these works indicates that the exploration towards the
different philosophies of life has been profound. It is enough to know that colors are born in illusion, in belief, and live in
the digitized work of Coronel in open polychrome; in being.

It is also a purification conquered by perseverance and in the same enjoyment that offers every artist to continue his work
in the beauty achieved, which has been great here.
The tribute made by Coronel to the master Piranesi (1720-1778) after knowing his work up close also allows him to
wander around the fantastic and real buildings left by this artist, with the recreation of his stairs, his characters; the ruins,
looting and burning of Rome, which left a personal and fearsome mark of the history of this Empire.

In black and white, with vigorous strokes, with just the light of a blue and a magenta, takes us to this unprecedented tribute
to a man who knew how to get ahead of his time. And this open window is the silent gaze towards death, the skeletal
emptiness of destruction and the lack of humanity.

Coronel has entered into the vigor of the plastic story. He has expanded his visual dialogue. He has purified and therefore
refined his ideal as a creator and enriches his creative expression with poetry. Light for the psyche.
JOSÉ CORONEL

He was born in Maracay, Edo. Aragua, Venezuela (1957). He studied Graphic Design and Advertising (1980), Pure Art,
School of Plastic Arts Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela (2000). He was professor of design at the Charles Word
Design Institute, Valencia, Venezuela (1987,1988), worked as a Creative Designer at Veval Publicidad-VEPACO, Valencia
(1987-1990) and as a professor of Drawing and Color Theory at the CUAM Institute , Valencia (1988-2000).

His artistic career includes individual and collective exhibitions, participation in salons and biennials in a variety of
countries such as Chile, Argentina, Italy, China, Peru, Venezuela and Portugal. He has exhibited in a variety of spaces
among them, the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Francisco Narváez Museum, Edo.
Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, Banco Industrial de Venezuela, Caracas, Galleria BLUorg, Italy; Magnolias Fine Arts-Gallery,
Madrid, Spain; 25 The Anniversary of the Museum of the Americas, Houston, USA; Art Expo. Under Art Basel Miami
Beach 2016, Florida, USA, among many others.

He has obtained several awards such as the First Prize Arturo Michelena School of Plastic Arts, Valencia (1987), First
Prize, Carabobeños Artists Collective Exhibition, Valencia (1988), VII International Digital Art Exhibition (Cuba, 2005)
among others.

His works are part of collections in Venezuela, Spain, Italy, Austria and the United States. Currently lives and works in
Valencia, Venezuela.

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