1986. Manchego, born in San Lorenzo de Calatrava. A strange and introverted child who began painting at a very young age, at 6 years old, with no aptitude beyond that of art. It was very clear that he would have to study artistic Baccalaureate at the "Pedro Almodóvar" School of Arts in C. Real, since his artistic orientation was too clear from the start. After breaking the barriers that come with growing up in a rural and natural environment far from the world, he moved to Madrid where, against all odds, he did not become just another student of fine arts, but rather his spatial way of perceiving beauty was more important and he graduated in Art Direction, Scenography and Ephemeral Architecture, at the TAI University School of Arts (Rey Juan Carlos University) and ELIA The European League of Institutes of Arts.

Yes, here, Madrid, where he settled to begin to train his artistic vision beyond the canvas, through the cameras, because, very soon he would begin to work in the art direction of films and series, so his uninterrupted pictorial work overlapped with filming and filled with influences at the same time that he worked on six films by Pedro Almodóvar, José Luis Cuerda, or for the Disney Production Company among others. And also in television commercials for major advertising brands, such as Coca-Cola, Ikea, Nespreso, BBVA, Bankia, etc. And after these 15 years of work and creative maturity suddenly the art of his paintings began to have more weight than that of his stage designs, and the time came to fly and create alone. Today, "the strange boy from the town" has exhibited his works from Mexico to Buenos Aires, from Paris to Barcelona, from Venice to Malaga.
Statement

"I dedicate myself to stealing pieces of the anonymous lives that people expose on their social networks to represent the current society with which I have had to live, to represent it under the filter of my iconoclastic way of expression; I have always been drawn to the ability to create beauty from ugliness, because if we compare the human being that we are today with that of antiquity, we have changed little beyond the way of representing ourselves; My roots in film art direction make me build my works in a very scenographic way, in which a particular war unfolds between abstraction and figuration of which I never know which will be the winner. The driving force of my work is to create through art a connection between the two realities that divide man, the physical reality in which his body lives and the immaterial reality that his soul perceives."_ Jesús Calzada