The 21st Century Artist

On first appearances, one would say that surrealist artist Juan Antonio Guirado’s paintings are kaleidoscopic images of color, but if we stop and pay attention, we soon discover the miracle surrounding their intimacy.

We, as humans, are full of something divine, yet are scared of looking inside ourselves. When we look into Guirado’s paintings we find the magic that will transport us to a wonderful spiritual world and will make us reflect on our cosmic existence.

Guirado’s work opens the doors to the Universe, endless in its content and reflecting uncountable changes in parallel universes. Each single fraction of the painting itself is a reflection of the human being trying to understand the mystery of life to reach a calm spirit.

Guirado is a painter influenced by eastern philosophy whose work tries to reflect the anger, hunger and desperation in mankind…. forecasting disasters in the future. His visionary work seems to align with the prophecies of 2012. Guirado is mainly concerned with the end of a cycle in the history of civilization. Like most essentialists his painting is subjected to  a radical purification and he succeeds in getting across the frontier between realism and visionary realism. His technique is superbly sensual for his oils have the fluidity of water colours in their silky, tactile quality and yet the contours of his visions  have the definite, highly contrasted accuracy of the early masters of the Chiaroscuro.

Of his work, one writer said: ‘His dream landscapes, at times extremely vivid, take us into a journey in search of our soul or the significance of things. Man appears as a tree, or a shadow of himself, or even fragmented. It is a type of painting which unfolds and through mirrors of metaphysical optics guides us by its strength through the essence of man. After seeing the work of Guirado, one can only meditate and decide that one is faced with a truly exceptional painter.’

Much of Guirado’s work revolves around a tunnel of white light, of immaculate purity and infinite length, with files of people heading toward the light and that final mystery.It is the Tantra which inspires Guirado to be honest with himself whilst relating to the past and present to forecast the future. It is with this reason his work contains the mysteries and doubts that all human beings carry inside themselves.

It is only when gazing at his paintings do we develop, without noticing, the sense of our own existence. In sum, he is the fusion of both the Renaissance and surrealist world.