The forces of opposing vectors are found many times in the visual work of Dominican artist José Rincón Mora. Good and evil, the sacred and the sacrilegious, spiritual and the carnal, faith and despair; and even the most violent and dark human aspects are vortices in the work of this painter.
The tenderness of a gaze can be convulsed by outbursts of anger or passion and the viewer participates to taste in this game that tests both your senses as well as your moral perception. The tremendous expressive power of his paintings could never be ignored. Rincon Mora is certainly one of the most outstanding artists of the Dominican Republic. His knowledge and skill touches almost all the trades of the fine arts, including architecture, graphic arts, stained glass and ceramics. Beautiful are his sketch works and his stained glass windows for various Dominican and European cathedrals. An effervescent quality of youth sweeping with color leaves the shaken and dazed viewer swaying before the tremendous flow of energy that emanates from his paintings.
-Fernando Ureña Rib
Jose Rincon Mora was born in Cotuí, Dominican Republic. He is one of the most important artists of Dominican Contemporary Art and the Caribbean. His talents are multidisciplinary: architect, painter, illustrator, sculptor, muralist and stained glass artist. His art has taken him to countries such as Spain, France, Greece and Italy from an early age. He is widely recognized as one of the great painters of the present century in the Dominican Republic as well as the Americas.
He graduated with a degree in architecture from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. He studied painting with Professor Jaime Colson and was awarded a scholarship by the German Government, DAAD in 1964. He studied at the Akademie Der Kunst, München (Academy of Art, University of München) as well as the Academy of Modern Art Paris where he graduated with honors. He has been commissioned by the German and Dominican government as well as religious organizations for his stained glass work in prominent cathedrals and churches including the oldest known church in the Americas, Catedral Santa Maria la Menor in Santo Domingo. He has exhibited his work at the Kunst Verein-München, Gallery Buchholz, Sttugart, Esslingen, Uhn, Zurich, Diocesan Museum Freising, Metropolitan Museum of Art Miami, the National Theatre (DR) Museum of Modern ART (DR) and others. His most recent exhibition was a Retrospective of his work in the Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo 2011.
