234 - JANO MUÑOZ (A Coruña, 1971).

JANO MUÑOZ (A Coruña, 1971). "The Weight of Imagination." Oil on canvas. Signed on the front, signed and titled on the back. Dimensions: 81 x 65 cm; 85 x 69 cm (frame). With an early interest in art, he began his training at the Pablo Picasso School of Arts in his hometown in 1986 and, six years later, graduated with a specialization in three-dimensional techniques. That same year, he held his first exhibition at that center and continued to exhibit in other cities in Galicia until he moved to Barcelona, where he soon succeeded in establishing and promoting his work after exhibiting at the Sala de Arte Joven de la Generalitat de Catalunya and at La Caixa in Barcelona. He participated in the sixth edition of the prestigious Mostra de Unión Fenosa in 1999. He won a prize in the “Twenty-five Young Artists of Catalonia” competition and was a finalist for the Kronenbour Prize in Barcelona. Recently, his paintings have been exhibited in Italy. Jano Muñoz’s painting is conceptual and reflective, rooted in an intense exploration of geometric structures. His landscape painting is rooted in hyperrealism—a movement whose leading Spanish figure is Antonio López García—though Muñoz’s work is more subdued in color and imbues the forms with the intensity of polyhedrons in space, adding mystery to his chromatic results in grays and ochres while deliberately distorting perspective. His work can also be seen as an exercise in intersecting strokes and lines, forming a constructive structure of great simplicity and beauty. VI Mostra Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, 1999. Solo Exhibitions—2009 Moret Art Espacio—Fundación Caixanova [Vigo]—Casino del Atlántico—Casa de Galicia in Madrid—El Correo Gallego [Santiago]—City Hall of A Coruña—“La Caixa” Gallery [Barcelona]- Young Artists’ Gallery of the Generalitat de Cataluña [Barcelona]—"Tanxedoira" Cultural Center—"Hércules Coruñés" Exhibition Hall—Oleiros City Hall—Arteixo City Hall—A Coruña Artisans’ Circus—"Pablo Picasso" School of Art.