Jorge Galindo

JORGE GALINDO (Madrid, 1965).
"El greco en Borox imitation of Christ", 2001.
Oil on canvas print.
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Size: 250 x 176 cm.
Jorge Galindo began his artistic training linked to the Talleres de Arte Actual del Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, beginning his exhibition career during the eighties, his first exhibition being held at the Galería Víctor Martín (Madrid, 1989) and in 1994 he exhibited at the Galería Soledad Lorenzo. His production has been characterised by research and experimentation in painting. His work, in most cases in large format, is determined by an exercise in the collage technique. His first productions were an example of experimentation with the material and tactile aspects of painting. It is in this period that we can insert this work, in which we see that the artist has managed, through the use of canvases, to insert painting in an almost physical way. In this way Galindo's work approaches a type of gestural abstraction, giving great relevance to the interventions of chance and material aspects.

It is true that from his first works, exhibited in the mid-eighties, Jorge Galindo combined painting with photographic collages. However, during the nineties he experimented with photomontages in which he used images from the illustrated media of the fifties and sixties and in which he expressed a critique of consumer society. Galindo's work has developed through series with a clear thematic unity, although expressed with stylistic resources of complex variety. His most important series include Pintura animal, La vie des bêtes, exhibited in the MNCARS's Espacio Uno. His work has been exhibited in the most important galleries in the USA, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium.