(…) Javier Palacios inserts a fair number of interpretations into every work/ His technique (“I don’t claim to do hyper-realism”, he says, although his work is complex and figurative), his theme (the idea) of superficial beauty and what it conceals can be extrapolated to numerous spheres of reflection, and this is what takes him into his own universe (there’s an overall arrangement of colour and dialogue between paintings).
(Article in El Pais, Cultura)