Jordi Colomer

JORDI COLOMER (Barcelona, 1962).
Untitled, 1995.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 43 x 32 cm; 57 x 45 cm (frame).
Multidisciplinary artist, Jordi Colomer lives and works between Paris and Barcelona. He studied at the Eina School in Barcelona, and studied Art History and Architecture at the University of Barcelona. In the first period of his career he developed an object sculpture to which he gradually incorporated an architectural scale, walkable constructions and references to the theater and its devices. In 1986 he began his video works in the form of micro-narratives with Beckettian roots, in which the characters are confronted with sets and objects, as in "Simo" (1997) or "Le Dortoir" (2001). He then develops a singular vision of the contemporary city. The video series "Anarchitekton (Barcelona, Bucharest, Brasilia, Osaka)" (2002-2004) is one of his most emblematic works, in which he introduces cardboard models, replicas of real buildings and changes of scale. Colomer has also worked as a set designer, collaborating with plays by V. Novarina, J. Brossa, S. Beckett and R. Ashley. Throughout his career he has held numerous solo exhibitions, both in Spain and in Belgium, France, the United States, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland and Uruguay, among other countries. He has also taken part in important group exhibitions, the most recent of which include "Car Fetish" (Tinguely Museum, Basel, 2011), "La memoria del otro" (Museo Wifredo Lam, Havana, 2011) and "Panorama" (Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, 2010). In 2008 the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris dedicated an important retrospective exhibition to him. He is currently represented in numerous museums and collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MUMOK in Vienna and the MACBA in Barcelona.