His works are part of important museum collections such as IVAM (Valencia), Photomuseum (Zarautz, Guipúzcoa), Musée de la Photographié a Charleroi (Brussels), Gravina Museum of Fine Arts (Alicante), Museum of the University of Alicante, Centro Storico Montecelio. (Rome), University of Colorado (USA), Generalitat Valenciana Art Collection, Jenkins & Romero Collection (New York), Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art.
His work is found in multiple catalogs and four monographic books, as well as a book by Mujeres de Octubre, Colección, Pepe Calvo, and an award-winning author in 2004 at Fotoencuentros de Murcia.
On a literary level, she published La flor oracle, which tells the story of a struggling woman who goes through horrific experiences that lead her to personal breakdown. fantasy and exotic elements and the esoteric trap the reader in a work reminiscent of Rubén Darío; This quote is from Juan de la Mata Moncho.
Her second novel, Dream My Soul (Piediciones), is the story of a family saga that combines love, friendship, passion, intrigue, sex, adventure, drama, comedy and even crime and violence. In 1960 Alicante. , with an extreme but romantic and even fanciful touch.
It is these points that connect this Imagine My Soul to the Floating Garden, where elements of his two previous works reach the simplicity of perfection.
A sharp work with very good taste, a lot of culture, intrigue, sex, mystery, more sex, deaths, cartographic plans of cities like San Sebastian and New York, a sense of love and humor, family, mothers not pregnancy. from natural birth but from ancestral goddesses… and much more.
It’s a book with a surprise in itself.
Great works of art that did not disappear with the passage of time had the aroma, the secret.
But one day, this lofty painting disappeared.
Thus begins this mysterious story.
And we begin metafiction, which is a kind of reflection on the fiction itself, we go into colloquialism, ask the reader and make him think.
Readers, I have chosen you to describe the uncertainty in which I find myself…
This introduction is brutal, without more education to the reader than the audacious familiarity on the first page, nothing more than an ingenious ploy to convey ambiguity, ambiguity, playing deftly by asking the reader to pay attention to exactly one ear. He listens to me, appealing to a third dimension between the written and the imaginary, which already appeals to the sound from the very beginning. Voice typed letter. The ingenious mystery start that we’re already complicit in.
But what is The Floating Garden about?
It’s about stealing a painting.
And it’s about a friendship.
A story centered on the reunion of two old friends, Leo and Víctor, who haven’t seen each other in years, one a successful artist in New York, and Víctor a successful publisher, their personal lives are filled with rich experiences on all levels. he’s happy in every way and that coincides because Leo has to exhibit at MOMA in New York and for that he needs two paintings The bed and the Floating garden, owned by Víctor, is a triptych that has mysteriously disappeared.
Pepe’s work is so rich in nuance that it overflows with culture from every pore.
Classical literature, music, classical cinema, photographers, tailors, designers, painters, great muses. To navigate the pages of this work is to somehow visit all possible cultural imaginaries.
The main character wanders between sex in all its nuances. Women older than him, women his age, lovers, friends, betrayed acquaintances. He’s a great character playing natural and out-of-body living, like someone breathing or coughing, with all its advantages and disadvantages.
A book written in the first person to play with the author’s cunning, to display the character between a woman who has suffered a lot in life and someone who is vivacious, winning and at the same time suffering at home chores. Go on.
The work, which is a psychological construction and deconstruction novel at every level, is a tribute to family, friendship, love, lack of love, nostalgia and sex with all its dimensions. Pleasant sensuality written in a natural, elegant and daring way.
Likewise, it introduces what is an achievement that is as powerful as it is overwhelming: Email and how to use it.
At this point, Pepe completely destroys the skeleton of the traditional novel, creates a warm Frankenstein in which he makes room for metafiction, and empowers the reader to participate in the work. It is such a natural way of communicating with the reader that it becomes a kind of new genre.
But everything tastes new in this enigmatic novel.
From the very beginning, the characters are presented as a play that shows us who is who and who will be who in this choral story of classical cinema, which can be both a play and a cult film.
Victor Novell says at one point:
“He was not born to be beaten”, which I culturally attribute to the character of an invincible Pepe.
Chapter book and epilogue. In each of them, the author’s style shows his taste for the simple, direct, cultured, daring, popular, elegant vocabulary, always thanks to the moment chosen to tell the story of the event we read.
Blessed as a scriptural writer and a good photographer, he is adept at using the didactic of the use of space and approach to situations, you always visualize fast-paced action, whether it’s static or like walking in a park. , likewise, as if the action unfolds in a car chase. It is an acoustic, literary and visual work. The author’s magic of combining all artistic aspects is magnificent.
It’s already quoted on the back cover.
If Man Ray said I couldn’t draw, I’d take a picture of him, Pepe Calvo thinks if I can’t build a narrative with images, I’ll do it with words.
With the degeneration of the most basic emotions, Pepe’s literature is an unqualified mineral. It destroys the genre wonderfully to create a light novel that casts all kinds of shadows like a kaleidoscope of color.
Sometimes the fiction reminds him of Rousseau’s Dreams of a Lonely Walker, with spirits, always women, and mothers always communicating differently with Victor, spiritually communicating with the body or electric light in a different way. The presence of the mother is essential in the study. Seagull flights that inspire many moments such as water novel, fast actions, work, psychics, love, sex, betrayal, lust, threesomes, mothers, friends, family. LIFE at last.
The job is just that. LIFE.