Jordi Dalmau and Lidia Górriz

JORDI DALMAU (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Barcelona, 1957) and LIDIA GÓRRIZ (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Barcelona, 1957 and 1961).
"Gest al paisatge", 1986.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on the back. Titled and dated on the stretcher frame.
Measurements: 101 x 130 cm; 133,5 x 132 cm (frame).

Jordi Dalmau and Lidia Górriz, born in Santa Coloma in 1957 and 1961 respectively, are doctors in Fine Arts and multidisciplinary artists. They were neighbors on the same street, a neighborhood that gave rise to this unusual couple dedicated to the realization of projects on the critique of the image and representation. Provocation, reflection, interrogation and collision of codes of the artistic world itself and its parallels with the media society generate their visual discourse. They work as a team forming a creative tandem; their artistic personality is characterized by a constant process of open research, where concepts and contents take on a fundamental character. Their acid and deeply critical vision coexists under an appearance of fictitious normality. The committed work and ethical radicalism are shown as the basis of the conflict between the discourses of art and its fissures. We could say that the provocation between superimpositions and interrogations of codes, the irony and criticism of the art world itself or its parallels with the media society, as well as the journalistic tone of recent or past history, generates part of the discourse, giving it meanings.