José Balagueró. Zaragoza 1930.

His long career has taken him to live in different countries, Switzerland and France in his youth, later in the U.S. and in Spain today. His works may be entered in the field of lyrical abstraction, has held and participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and his works are represented in major collections and museums:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid.
Museum of Abstract Art, Cuenca.
The Garage Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Museum of Teheran, Iran.
Municipal Museum, Zaragoza.
Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Madrid.
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.
Evanston Art Center, Chicago.
Cahan Amos Collection, New York.
Municipal Museum, Madrid.
Fundación Santillana.
Citran Chateau Foundation, Bordeaux.
Ministry of Labour Madrid.
Cortes de Aragón, Zaragoza.
Diputación de Aragón, Zaragoza.
Fundación Juan March, Madrid.
Spain's Fundación Banco Exterior, Madrid
Museum Salvador Allende, Chile.
Palacio de Congresos, Madrid.
Chicago Art Institute

The painter feeds signs and colors not say something but to invite us to say something. In his work does not weigh a mandate or even a suggestion of something concrete, the slightest hint of an image. The signs and colors are not here a cautious assumptions that our understanding is go into a form determined by the artist who sees us arrive at a distance where he suggested that we go. His work, however, breathes freedom is beautiful only when man is able to use it. Perhaps this is the most noble purpose of an abstraction, clean shadows hints of suspicion and a space. And so I see the painting of José Balaguero.

MA García Viñolas