José Guerrero. Concerning Landscape

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José Guerrero, "Hwy-80 (House near Wendover), UT." Image courtesy of KBr.

For the past twenty years, the work of José Guerrero (Granada, 1979) has explored the landscape as an active entity with a living, dynamic identity in which cultures and the predisposition of the collective imagination intersect. For Guerrero, as for many artists of his generation, photographing a territory, a landscape or a place means not only representing it but also evoking the relationships of proximity, the alterations, solidarities and tensions inscribed within them, thus banishing the notion of landscape as something non-artificial and external to us.

His work is meticulously organized into series focused on places with great iconographic and historical significance (La Mancha, Carrara, Sierra Nevada the Thames), based on the assumption that it is the viewer’s own experience that shapes the narrative. The cultural memory of the viewer, combined with the photographer’s meaningful use of light, color and atmosphere, ultimately constructs a poetic reading—rich with meaning—of the space.

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