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Jordi Alcaraz
Spain, 1963
Jordi Alcaraz’s discourse is rooted in the classical tradition of painting and sculpture, leading to a reflection on volume, language, and time through the use of materials such as water, glass, mirrors, reflections, or books that incorporate this concept.
His artistic language is characterized by visual transgression, the interplay of multiple perspectives, and the combination of transparencies and perforations that reveal hidden, almost magical spaces. Through his works, Jordi Alcaraz establishes an unprecedented, surprising, and metaphorical relationship with the world.
Sculptures, paintings, and drawings emerge through his unique treatment of materials and poetic play on words and unexpected titles. He creates compositions where pigment bags seem to sink into glass surfaces, poetically evoking the origin of painting. Wooden sculptures pierce the methacrylate case that contains them, transitioning from the darkness of night to daylight. Colors escape from their containers through imaginary holes. He also produces impossible portraits.
Obsessed with the craft of art, Alcaraz explores in his works the fundamental gestures of drawing, sculpting, and painting. He focuses more on the act of creation than on the artwork as an end result. His recent works emphasize absence rather than presence. What matters is the sensation of drawing: the moment just before the act, the impression left afterward, but not the artwork itself, not the resulting drawing. There is neither image nor reference to any idea. The artist draws, but no drawing remains. What we see is the empty space left by his gesture, the trace of the materials used, but the absence of anything else is almost absolute.
Jordi Alcaraz breaks materials in various ways, making his work less evocative and more striking. Layers of materials are superimposed like protective shields, gradually constructing increasingly complex layers of meaning.
His artistic career began in the fields of sculpture and printmaking. He regularly exhibits in galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Trieste, and Zurich. He has also showcased his work in institutions such as Sala Tecla, Fundación Telefónica, the Los Angeles Art Museum, Musée Réattu in Arles, and the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.
His works are part of collections such as the Biedermann Museum in Donaueschingen, Germany; the Fontanal Cisneros Collection in Miami; the Williams Collection in Massachusetts; Olor Visual in Barcelona; and the Banco Sabadell Foundation.
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Dues lletres
2024
Book, resin and methacrylate
46 x 59 cm
8.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Idea per a un dibuix
2024
Methacrylate and spiral notebook
75 x 60 cm
8.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Partitura
2024
Resin, collage and grease pencil
188,5 x 151 cm
23.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Partitura
2024
Charcoal, methacrylate, grease pencil, string, and crystal ball
218 x 162 cm
23.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Partitura
2024
Charcoal, string, methacrylate and resin
66 x 84,5 cm
9.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix d’arquitecte (III)
2024
Drypoint on methacrylate, iron, collage and wire
65,5 x 55 cm
8.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2024
Book, resin and oil stick
48 x 61 x 5 cm
8.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Autoretrat al taller
2024
Methacrylate and cardboard
101 x 85 cm
11.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
El music
2024
Charcoal on paper, collage, iron and methacrylate
102 x 79 cm
11.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2023
Book, ink and methacrylate
63,5 x 55,5 cm
8.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Pintures Esperant
2023
Book, ink and methacrylate
75 x 60 cm
8.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2023
Methacrylate and wire
42 x 51,5 cm
8.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Cosas elementales. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2020
Jordi Alcaraz. Cosas elementales. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2020
Jordi Alcaraz. Cosas elementales. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2020
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2020
Resin, drawing and plexiglass
162 x 114 cm
16.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Set dibuixos en espera
2020
Resin and plexiglass on cardboard
41,5 x 56,5 cm
8.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix fent el camí de les basses
2020
Drawing on paper and resin
53 x 53 cm
6.900 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Bodegó (II)
2018
Mixed media
45 x 53 cm
7.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Bodegó (I)
2018
Mixed media
53 x 45 cm
7.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Conversa entre autoretrats
2016
Drawing and plexiglass
67 x 87 cm
9.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Dibuixos de defensa. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2016
Jordi Alcaraz. Dibuixos de defensa. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2016
Jordi Alcaraz
Varias ideas para un dibujo
2015
Drawing on paper and methacrylate
60 x 80 cm
8.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Procés per dibuixar una escultura
2015
Drawing, pigment, collage and plexiglass
60 x 80 cm
8.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixar
2012
Stones, methacrylate, drawing and cardboard
111 x 151 cm
18.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixar les arrels I
2012
Iron and methacrylate
59 x 39 x 25 cm
6.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz. Los Angeles. 2010
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixar l’altre
2009
Wood, paint, and string
63 x 35 x 35 cm
11.500 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Pensar dibuixos
2009
Painting on cardboard, glass, and methacrylate
104 x 124 cm
16.000 € (VAT included)
Jordi Alcaraz
Dues gotes
2004
Ink and methacrylate
19 x 30 cm