GELO PINTOR

GELO is the stage name of Juan Jesús Enríquez Domínguez, an artist who was born in the town of Vilarrasa, in the province of Huelva in 1956.
When he was a very young boy, at the age of 2, his family moved to live in Valls, in the Forn Teuler farmhouse, where his father alternated work at RENFE with work taking care of the fields.
At the farmhouse, he had his first intimate contact with nature and with the freedom that came with spending almost the entire day outdoors in the fields, unforgettable memories and experiences that have lasted his whole life.
His father had a special and natural gift for crafts and it was what impressed the boy, being this his first reference. Later he studied at the School of Art in Tarragona, worked with the artist Magic Barenys and his references of great artists are Picasso, Dalí, Miró and Max Ernst, although he has tried to follow his self-taught and personal path. He is an artist with more than 50 years of experience. He began his professional and exhibition career in 1973, and since then he has not stopped exhibiting in both collective and individual exhibitions.
His work is very broad, alternating painting with engravings, lithographs, sculptures and performances and on different media, such as wood, canvas, cardboard and paper.
He has a very special and diverse style, which changes and alternates over time and with maturity. He began with figurative painting to move on to more abstract forms, but always identifiable within a particular and sometimes provocative surrealism, with a lot of visual impact.
In his work GELO seeks a certain romanticism, but without reaching either melancholy or nostalgia that depresses him. He admires pagan cultures and their wisdom in the supreme and beautiful art that excites him. In his works, characters appear that accompany the structures of the buildings that act as a theatrical stage and that provide movement and human warmth.
He has more than 100 exhibitions under his belt, including those held in Tarragona, Reus, Valls, Barcelona, ​​Lleida, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, Mallorca, Asturias, Pamplona, ​​Paris, Munich, Turin, Genoa and New York.
He has been a decorator for various entities such as the Centro Medol in Tarragona and for restoration, creating murals, such as that of the University of Barcelona in its branch in Tarragona and sets for the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare in the Camp de Marte in Tarragona.
His work is included in private collections and museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Tarragona, the Museum of History in Tarragona and the Montserrat Gallery in New York.