César Galicia

César Galicia is one of the most important exponents of the international realist movement. Given that Cesar Galicia worked mainly with American galleries, and also because of the scarcity of his production, the exhibition we present at the Betty Guereta Gallery, is an almost unique opportunity to see in Spain a significant set of his production.

Cesar Galicia (Madrid, 1957) is considered one of the most important painters within the so-called Madrid realism of the second generation, that is, the one after Antonio Lopez; and the most radical in his aesthetic assumptions. Within a hyperrealist formula, César Galicia is one of the few painters who knew how to successfully transcend a form of painting that is always close to artificial effects.

This ability and this mastery of a perfectly personal language that combines the delicacy of detail with the roughness of his deepest identity, is the most characteristic feature of a painting that transcends the hyperrealist mode of his workmanship to settle in a more narrative and mysterious world.

For César Galicia, what is important are certain images of reality that he pursues or even constructs to then transfer with all the meticulousness to the pictorial surface. Even, sometimes, with such extreme meticulousness that it confers them a certain unreality, precisely because of their own "excess" of reality.