Luis Gordillo

LUIS GORDILLO (Seville, 1934).
“Worth a Julio Galán,” 1994.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Titled in the middle left.
Measurements: 24.5 x 22.5 cm; 57 x 54 cm (frame).
This piece reflects the artistic dialogue between Gordillo—a key figure in Spanish abstract and pop art—and the Mexican painter Julio Galán, known for his Neo-Mexican style rich in emotional symbolism. Gordillo plays with the idea of the portrait, paying homage to the Mexican painter through a unique visual language rooted in Gordillo’s characteristic aesthetic of organic, “cellular” forms and a use of lines that suggest mental or biological processes.
Luis Gordillo is one of the leading figures in abstract art in Spain. Internationally renowned, he has been honored with the National Prize for Plastic Arts (1981), the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1996), the Gold Medal from the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (2004), the Velázquez Prize for the Visual Arts (2007), and the National Prize for Printmaking (2012). He has held solo exhibitions around the world, and his work is represented in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, MACBA in Barcelona, the Juan March Foundation, ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Folkwang Museum in Germany, and elsewhere.