Drawing made with waxes on paper of 32x23 cm measures, of neo-expressionist style, Art Brut and Outsider Art of contemporary art, which shows the image of a woman who looks in the mirror and looks emaciated and of bad appearance.

  

EMACIATED WOMAN

Inspired by the book “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf, Jose is working on a series of portraits, all the characters could be Orlando.
They struggle with their identity on one hand, but also are proud of their authenticity, celebrating what it means to be Human. Not depending on time or gender, they tell universal stories – but at the same time a very personal one.
A poetic journey, a search for identity where most of us ,if we look well and with attention, will find some recognition.

“Orlando”

The site is a funeral complex located south of the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. The project proposes new rituals to remember our deceased in order to challenge traditional funeral customs. Instead of commemorating death through a static monument that depersonalizes and segregates the dead –such as mausoleums, tombs, crypts, and cemeteries– Crossarium implements a speculative architectural typology where land, landscape and structure are the monument. The idea of acts of care towards the land –found in the crosses on the roads of Puerto Rico– is used by family members to honor their dead; at the same time, these acts serve to regenerate a site affected by years of modern capitalist and industrial practices.

The site is in what are nowadays the premises of the AES thermoelectric power station in Guayama. The plant has been the center of attention since came to light the environmental and health problems the ashes –product of the coal burning process to generate electricity– represent. Using the Land Act of 1941 in Puerto Rico, we envision an amendment based on land uses to honor and protect the crosses that are already on our roads and give them a permanent space in Crossarium. This amendment recognizes the right to property –by means of appropriation in the form of acts of care– of the land occupied by funeral monuments in the form of crosses on the roads of Puerto Rico, to the family members or persons who have taken on the task of remembering and keep these 'sites' for years. In turn, the amendment gives the government the right to expropriate the lands of the AES to be divided into parcels and distributed among said relatives and people, thus creating Crossarium. Once claimed and the presence of acts of care is verified, the sites of the crosses are removed from their original place to be transferred to Crossarium.

Crossarium is a sort of garden that fuses agricultural practices with different funeral traditions found in Puerto Rican popular culture –including among these road crosses and Baquinés. The garden has an Ornamentalium, where relatives and visitors can acquire all kinds of decorations such as flowers, candles, toys, plants, among others; an Educational Center where the new generations learn about the practice and cultural heritage of building crosses by the side of the roads, at the same time participating in the process of caring for them; a Crematorium that seeks more sustainable methods of remembering and treating our dead; the Baquinés, inspired by the popular festivals in the Afro-Caribbean culture after the death of a child to celebrate life; the Sphere as the central point of the project that serves as a spiritual space; the observation bridges product of the preexisting structures of the thermoelectric plant to transport coal; and finally the Terrariums, a proposed structural grid on the existing mountain of coal and ashes where ornaments, ashes, acts of care for the land, agricultural practices, and crosses and sites come together to form a new topography that is the product of new practices implemented in this speculative typology


CROSSARIUM

Portrait of Neoexpressionist, Conceptual, Surrealism and pop art within contemporary art, made with wax on paper of an alien, visiting Earth in his UFO.

THE ALIEN

Video of old Drawings and a new Painting.

OLD DRAWINGS

DRAWINGS OF PORTRAITS (SMALL FORMAT)

SERIES OF DRAWINGS "FASHION MODELS"

Artwoks by Jose Antonio Higuero (Josan Artista). Series Titled "DRAWINGS".

SERIES TITLED "DRAWINGS"

NEO-EXPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS BY JOSE ANTONIO HIGUERO (JOSAN ARTISTA)

Oil on canvas painting measuring 81x100 cm, within the style of Contemporary Art Expressionism, which reflects a personal vision of the theme of Ecologism.

ECOLOGIST'S DREAM

Oil on canvas painting measuring 100x81 cm of the Portrait of a character standing between two ladies of high society, Neo-expressionist style within Contemporary Art.

CHARACTER BETWEEN TWO LADIES

Drawing made with Waxes on cardboard measuring 70x50 cm, in the Neo-Expressionist, Art Brut and Outsider art styles of Contemporary Art, which shows the image of a teacher with his student to whom he is explaining the class.

  

CHILD AND TEACHER UNDER A STAR

Painting on canvas measuring 65x54 cm, representing a character ecstatic about his own delusions, which he sees as stars around him. Within the Neo-Expressionist style, Art brut and Outsider art. Contemporary Art inspired by Artists Pablo Picasso, Karel Appel, Jean Michel Basquiat, Antonio Saura and Matt Sesow.

  

THE MAN OF THE STARS

Painting made with Mixed Technique of Acrylic and oil sticks on canvas, of a character sticking out his tongue, mocking. Neo-Expressionist Style of Contemporary Art

MAN STICKING OUT HIS TONGUE

Painting measuring 50x61 cm that represents a married couple set in their normal, everyday life. Satire and criticism of current life. Painting within the Neo-Expressionist style, Art brut and Outsider art influenced by the works of artists Pablo Picasso, Jean Michel Basquiat, Karel Appel, Antonio Saura and Matt Sesow.
  
  

THE COUPLE

Wall Carpet N1

China with its rapid development is also one of the countries where more trash is produced with discarded materials used in construction sites. All kinds of materials can be found in the streets and the cleaning process is usually slow and ineffective. This installation uses the view from a door inside a warehouse as a starting point. A traditional Chinese landscape with a mountain and bamboos can be seen outside the door. This bucolic view receives a man-made mirror lake with the final view being framed by bars. The choice of materials, the placement of the piece using the door frames and the mirror frames to suggest something controlled and the dust and water drawing contribute to reflect on intimacy, transience, social-politics, and ecology.



I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU BY THE LAKE TO SET ME FREE

Iconic Bas Jan Ader’s words with his handwriting made into a neon light.

I'M TOO SAD TO TELL YOU

Neon piece with my handwriting of one verse wrongly attributed to Charles Bukowski. 



FIND WHAT YOU LOVE AND LET IT KILL YOU

This installation is composed by a black room with a sound frequency involving the audience while the red neon on the central wall irradiates creating a visual red atmosphere in the space. As a reflection an almost hidden LED display on the back wall with the words “假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无” quoted from the book by Cao Xueqin, and translated as “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real.”


THE DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER

The starting point of this project goes back to the ancient Chinese copper coins where an outer circle and an inner square suggest ideas of flexibility and order as a definition of the world. The resulting site-responsive piece simulates a Zen stone garden with a central mirror-like stainless steel monolith that embodies and blends with the environment where it is placed. It is a space to stop, contemplate, ponder, breathe, and confront a neglected dimension of our experience.

THE MORE YOU TRY TO FORGET, THE BETTER YOU'LL REMEMBER

ENTER THE VOID

The city, inhabit of the
average and tormented citizen of
our century, transited unsuspected
processes, in mid of the hybrid
metamorphosis, the once cold
and agonizing city, amalgamates
nature and resurfaces as
a changing, polysemic and
multidimensional entity, where
the new humanity not only resides,
is transported to the ends of
consciousness and reality.

ExpEp.009 (tributo a oriente 1/3)

Photographic series of closed and empty industrial, commercial and cultural spaces with vivid remnants of mankind.

BADLANDS | BLUES FOR THE PAST DAYS_series 1 

Digital Media 

Some dialogues between Contemporary Art and Architecture. New narratives and contexts. An ongoing project about new connections and possibilities.

[... THIS INSIDE YOU KILLS Project series#3: dialogues with the works of José Luís Neto (“Pure Emulsion”, presented at CAV-Coimbra)] & [... THIS INSIDE YOU KILLS Project series#: a dialogue with the work of José Luís Neto (“Pure Emulsion”, presented at CAV-Coimbra)]

[... THIS INSIDE YOU KILLS Project]

It´s a photograph showing a black male model  holding "lives". #resistance

was i invited?

The artwork shows a vampire burning in sunlight.
The sun is a metaphor for hope, burning the sickness away and starting a new day or a new beginning. 
Colored pencils on paper The drawing is formed by a construction of 12 pieces of paper, each piece of paper is A3 size. Altogether the drawing measures 126 X 119 cm. The work was made on April 09, 2020

The sun is our salvation

The artwork reflects the power of nature depicting an energetic volcanic eruption.
Colored pencils on paper
The drawing is formed by a construction of 11 pieces of paper, each piece of paper is A3 size. Altogether the drawing measures 126 X 119 cm.
The work was made on March 25, 2020


Volcano

textile art project for my next exhibition collective...

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