José Morea was born in Chiva (Valencia) in 1951. He was a painter linked to the New Figuration that, coinciding with the democratic transition in the Spanish State, exploded in opposition to the previous conceptual postulates and that throughout the world was consolidated with the name of Transavanguardia Italian, debtor, also of German Neo-Expressionism.

He began his career in 1975, holding his first exhibition at the Official College of Architects of Valencia, but already in 1980 he obtained the Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture for Young Artists, which together with the Scholarship of the Casa de Velázquez, of 1981, made He moved to Madrid, where he was a prominent participant, during those years, in the cultural effervescence that was called, La Movida.

If something characterized Morea’s work, it is undoubtedly his narrative will, to tell life and everything that surrounds his process, the things of life, however foundational or inconsequential they may be. Excess, as a vital weapon, as a way of knowing oneself, of positioning oneself in a world full of possibilities, where everything is to be done and everything is possible, as the verse by Miquel Martí i Pol said.