"Pierced by compassion, the artist says: drink my blood, feed on my renunciations, until the earth and sky become carrion." With this powerful motto, poet Gabriel Ventura presents José Luis Barquero's exhibition (Barcelona, ​​​​1997) at the Mayoral gallery in Barcelona, ​​​​on display only until September 10. "It is not easy to find artists of this age with that intention and this radicalism," says gallery owner Jordi Mayoral. "We also come from painting, from tradition, and in their works there are elements that fit us from Goya, Tàpies, Barceló, Saura and the German painting of the eighties, and then, as always, the current artist must make the current artist the art that is unfinished."