JORDI ALCARAZ

About the artist

Selected works

Exhibitions

Jordi Alcaraz

*1963 Calella/Barcelona – lives in Calella

In his material pictures, Jordi Alcaraz uses free forms to transport the multi-layered possibilities of perceiving reality. He works with images, words, and various materials, especially glass, mirrors, metal, stone, wood, paint, and books. Alcaraz, who is not only a painter but a writer as well, has published several limited-edition books. As a young artist, he spent time in the museums of Barcelona studying Romanesque paintings, sculptures by Catalonian artists, and the works of his predecessors: Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Antoni Tàpies, and Eduardo Chillida.

At the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, he extensively studied tribal art. At first, he focused on (figurative) sculptures and graphical editions. It was only later, in the 1990s, that he discovered his unique style. Again and again he has used mirrors, frames, and books to provoke confronting glances and to integrate his audience, giving new life to the great themes of classical painting such as self-portraits and still lifes. Since the mid 1980s, Jordi Alcaraz has been represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Selected works

Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (will), 1981, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220.3 cm

Jordi Alcaraz
Autoretrat com a escultor / Selfportrait as a sculptor

2011
culpture fragments, wood, wire and methacrylate
43 x 20 x 20 cm

Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (will), 1981, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220.3 cm

Jordi Alcaraz
Sense titol / Untitled

2011
open book, wire staples, drypoint and methacrylate
33 x 38 x 7 cm

Exhibitions

Alcaraz Galerie Haas AG Zürich

19 November 2020 – 6 March 2021

Jordi Alcaraz – Antoni Tàpies

Reflexions

9 years after his first exhibition in Zurich, Gallery Haas again shows works of the Catalan artist Jordi Alcaraz. But the gallery now presents these latest works in a larger context.