Jordi Alcaraz

JORDI ALCARAZ I TARRADAS (Calella, Barcelona, 1963).
"Drawing waves". 2021.
Mixed media: black paint, fragments of methacrylate and paper.
Signed and titled on front and back.
Measurements: 53 x 73 cm; 60 x 81 cm (frame).

Jordi Alcaraz's works are filled with an intense power of suggestion, as we see in "Dibuixa onades", where with minimal elements and experimental eagerness he suggests the movement of the sea waves with simple black strokes on methacrylate folded at the ends. Simplicity and the capacity for abstraction are resources used by the artist to compose his visual haikus, simple poetic images that owe their strength to experimentation with materials and his unusual way of combining them. His proposals are unclassifiable in terms of artistic language: neither sculpture nor painting or both at the same time, oscillating between two-dimensional and three-dimensionality.

Jordi Alcaraz began his artistic career in the field of sculpture and engraving. He made his debut in 1985 in a group show held at the La Main gallery in Brussels, and the following year he held his first individual exhibition at the Espai 83 of the Museum of Sabadell. Internationally recognized, since his beginnings Alcaraz has held numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Spain and in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Canada and Switzerland, and has been present at some of the most important fairs of the international contemporary art circuit (Arco, Art Bassel, Art Frankfurt, Art Cologne, Art Chicago, Art Miami and Arte Lisboa, among others). In 2001 he participated in the collective "De blancos, vacíos y silencios", at the Fundación Telefónica. In 2009 the Nieves Fernández gallery in Madrid included him in the exhibition "Cherchez la femme", which also exhibited works by artists such as Chillida and Equipo Crónica. He has also produced several bibliophile editions, including "Papers secants", with poetry by Perejaume (1986) and "Trasllat", with writings by Joan Brossa and Alfons Borrell. He is represented at the Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires in Palma de Mallorca, as well as in various private collections around the world. In this composition, formed by small bags of pigment, he evokes in a poetic way the gestation of an artistic process linked to both painting and sculpture.