El tren de la vida

Exhibition of paintings by Jesús Cerro Casado on the world of the railway in Spain, on show at the Museo del Ferrocarril in Madrid, with stations, platforms and trains depicted in oil and acrylic.

The exhibition brings together paintings by Jesús Cerro Casado focused on the Spanish railway world. The works are canvases executed in oil and acrylic, taken from a collection that the artist has been building for years and that is presented here in a selection.

The style is figurative and realist. The scenes cover various points of the peninsular network, from the building of the Canfranc International Station to platforms and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. The treatment of light, colour and composition turns transit spaces into scenes of calm, where industrial architecture and the tracks engage with their surroundings.

The train appears here as something more than infrastructure: the platforms and rails suggest the passing of time, farewells and reunions, and link the nostalgia of the classic journey with the human landscape. It is a proposal designed for those with an interest in figurative painting or in railway history.