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     Ever since I remember I paint… Every work is a specific question about something: myself, life, death, etc... Every style of my paintings is every “Me” I have ever been. If I would find easy to explain my works with words, I would write instead of painting. Nevertheless, each one of my paintings is a story, usually without beginning, without end and without a linear time sequence. Maybe someday I will stop wondering and thus my style will never change again.

     Perhaps that day will never come.

José Rizo.

    When I paint or write:

     Another attempt to understand the boundary (if there is one) that divides my work as the author from the creative work of the world that surrounds me. Where, or rather what is that thin line that divides what I create from what "others" create in my own mind? I only owe a glass through which I see other´s creation. I paint about the world that inspires me, but in fact, that world is made of music that someone else composed, lyrics that someone else wrote, and all kind of influences of other people´s lives.

      If I paint a story, or a feeling, or a sensation that involves -as it often happens- a dark, smoky underground bar, with strange or common people dancing around me, chatting around me, drinking beside me, telling me their stories or keeping them away from me, how can I say that I am the author of that work, when I know I didn´t invent such a place, nor such a music? How would I get the credit when I didn´t create that girl dancing alone with eyes closed crashing against everyone around her? How can I be sure that the inspiration is entirely mine, if it comes from the beautiful girl drinking next to me, fixing her hair with one elbow on the bar?

     Music explains my work and my inspiration by itself, better than I do with words. It´s an attempt, and an invitation to "live" instead of only "see" my paintings. I paint with acrylic, but should I say that the technique is rather music, lyrics, beer, smoke, people, nights?

José Rizo

THESE ARE SOME OF JOSÉ RIZO´s PAINTINGS:

María Méndez´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

María Méndez´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

María Méndez´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Ulises Sánchez´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.
€ 70

Alfredo Rizo´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.
€ 140

Cristina Rizo´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Gutierrez Méndez´s family private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Sketchbook.

Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

Sketchbook.

Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
€ 540

Alfredo Rizo´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
€ 290

Aramburu´s family private collection.

Currently in Irún, Basque Country.

Alfredo Rizo´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Candi & Nickolas Downey´s private collection.
Currently in Atlanta, USA.

Aramburu-Dési´s family private collection.

Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

Alfredo Rizo´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Gyöngyi Tóth´s private collection.

Currently in Szeged, Hungary.

Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

€ 830

Rizo-Lévai´s private collection.

Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Candi & Nickolas Downey´s private collection.

Currently in Atlanta, USA.

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Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.

€ 430

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