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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
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Idea per a un dibuix
2024
Methacrylate and spiral notebook
75 x 60 cm
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Partitura
2024
Resin, collage and grease pencil
188,5 x 151 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Partitura
2024
Charcoal, methacrylate, grease pencil, string, and crystal ball
218 x 162 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Partitura
2024
Charcoal, string, methacrylate and resin
66 x 84,5 cm
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
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2024
Book, resin and oil stick
48 x 61 x 5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Autoretrat al taller
2024
Methacrylate and cardboard
101 x 85 cm
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
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2023
Book, ink and methacrylate
63,5 x 55,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Pintures Esperant
2023
Book, ink and methacrylate
75 x 60 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Untitled
2023
Methacrylate and wire
42 x 51,5 cm
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
Jordi Alcaraz
Set dibuixos en espera
2020
Resin and plexiglass on cardboard
41,5 x 56,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix fent el camí de les basses
2020
Drawing on paper and resin
53 x 53 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Bodegó (II)
2018
Mixed media
45 x 53 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Bodegó (I)
2018
Mixed media
53 x 45 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Conversa entre autoretrats
2016
Drawing and plexiglass
67 x 87 cm
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
Jordi Alcaraz
Procés per dibuixar una escultura
2015
Drawing, pigment, collage and plexiglass
60 x 80 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixar
2012
Stones, methacrylate, drawing and cardboard
111 x 151 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixar les arrels I
2012
Iron and methacrylate
59 x 39 x 25 cm
Jordi Alcaraz. Los Angeles. 2010
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixar l’altre
2009
Wood, paint, and string
63 x 35 x 35 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Pensar dibuixos
2009
Painting on cardboard, glass, and methacrylate
104 x 124 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dues gotes
2004
Ink and methacrylate
19 x 30 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Solo exhibitions
2024
Pentagramas, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2023
Gnònom, Galería Mayoral, Barcelona
2022
From one drawing another, Galería Mayoral, Paris
2021
Cosas elementales, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2019
Nits, Museu de Montserrat, Abadía de Montserrat
Ejercicio de desaparición, Galería Patricia Ready, Vitacura, Chile
2018
Posar roses sobre la gepa closa, Museu de Pintura, Sant Pol de Mar
Defying boundaries, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2017
Michael Haas Galerie, Berlin
Kunstlage Haas, Berlin
Esborradis, Fundación Vila Casas, Barcelona
2016
Dibuixos de defensa, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2015
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
2014
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
Inside Out, Saint-Rémy, France
2013
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Stefan Roepke, Cologne
2012
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
Tomlinson Kong, New York
2011
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Michael Haas Gallery, Zurich
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
2010
Stefan Roepke, Cologne
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
2009
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
Pneuma, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2008
Stefan Röepke, Cologne
Michael Haas Galerie, Berlin
Sala Tecla, Barcelona (retrospective)
2007
Vides pròpies, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
2005
Centre Cultural Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
2004
Galería Altxerri, San Sebastián
NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2003
Galería Vértice, Oviedo
Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
2002
Carl Van der Voort Gallery, Ibiza
Galería Fúcares, Ciudad Real
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
2001
Joan Prats-Artgràfic, Barcelona
Galería Canem, Castellón
2000
Galería Trinta, Santiago de Compostela
1999
Museum of Modern Art, Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona
Carl Van der Voort Gallery, Ibiza
Galería Fúcares, Madrid
1998
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
1997
Galería Josep Gich, Girona
Group exhibitions (selection)
2019
Cartografies I + II, Centre Cultural de Terrassa, Terrassa
Escala de grises, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante
2018
Painting Still Alive, CoCA, Torun, Poland
2017
Discursos premeditados, Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection, Centre del Carme, Valencia
International Printmaking Biennial ICPNA, Lima
2015
Inside Out, Saint-Rémy, France
Clouds, Château des Princes de Croÿ, Roeulx, Belgium
Patrimoni ocult, Museu Domènech i Montaner, Canet de Mar
2014
Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
Sculpture Unchaperoned, Elisabeth & Klaus Galerie, Vienna
2013
Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles
2011
Framing Abstraction, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, curated by Peter Selz, Los Angeles
2009
Cherchez la femme, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
Noi cari amici, Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
2004
Espais, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Girona
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
Reinventing La Boîte en Valise. Homage to Marcel Duchamp, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2003
Museo de Pintura, Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona
2000
De blanco, vacíos y silencios, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
Global Art Source, Zurich
1998
Hommage to Joan Brossa, Llorenç Artigás Foundation, Barcelona
1996
55 minutes, Maresme Museum, Barcelona
Hommage to Federico García Lorca, Girona
Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid
1991
Grenchen Triennale, Switzerland
Museums and collections
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona
Fontanal Cisneros Collection, Miami
Williams Collection, New York
Yale University Art Gallery Collection, New Haven
POC – Galila Barzilai Collection, Brussels
Fundación Suñol, Barcelona
Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona
Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen
Indra Collection, Madrid
Fundación Banc Sabadell, Barcelona
Majestic Collection, Barcelona
olorVISUAL Collection, Barcelona
Other works
Jordi Alcaraz
Projecte d’escultura
2023
Book, ink and methacrylate
55 x 65 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre de dibuixos
2023
Book, ink and methacrylate
55 x 65 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix d’arquitecte (I)
2024
Drypoint on methacrylate, iron, collage, and wire
65,5 x 55 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
El pianista
2024
Charcoal, twine, methacrylate, and resin
65 x 54,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix d’arquitecte (II)
2024
Drypoint on methacrylate, iron, collage and wire
65,5 x 55 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixos estesos (pentagrama)
2022
Resin, grease pencil on methacrylate, twine
104 x 132 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix
2014
Methacrylate, pigments and paper
100 x 136 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2014
Book, ink and methacrylate
63,5 x 75 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2014
Painting, pigment, tape and methacrylate
136 x 100 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2014
Methacrylate and wire
103 x 128 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Novel-la
2014
Book and ink
55 x 75 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre de pintures
2015
Book and ink
35 x 45 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre de pintures
2015
Book and ink
35 x 45 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2016
Paint, paper, methacrylate and wire
80 x 60 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2016
Drawing on paper and methacrylate
53,5 x 62 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Novel·la
2016
Polyester resin, methacrylate and book
40 x 50 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre de dibuixos
2015
Book and methacrylate
40 x 50 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre de dibuixos (II)
2016
Book, drawing and methacrylate
40 x 50 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Exercici de desaparició (II)
2016
Ink and mirror on digital print
45 x 55 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre d’Historia
2016
Paint, methacrylate and paper on cardboard
100 x 135 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Bodegó
2016
Paint, pigment, drawing, wood, and methacrylate
214 x 164 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Ja no hi son
2016
Methacrylate, drypoint and wire
105 x 135 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuixos inútils
2016
Polyester resin, methacrylate and book
53,5 x 62 x 10 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Autobiografía
2016
Ink and book
32,5 x 45 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Bodegó
2017
Drypoint, methacrylate and collage
68 x 81,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2016
Drypoint, methacrylate, drawing and wire
147,5 x 104 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Paraula de set lletres
2017
Digital print, methacrylate, wood and ink
44,5 x 53 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Desconcert
2015
Drawing, ropes and cristal
80 x 100 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2018
Methacrylate, paper and wire
155 x 114 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Dona ajaguda
2020
Methacrylate, drawing and paper
39 x 46,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Autoretrat
2020
Drawing, pigment, cardboard and methacrylate
74 x 61 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Apuntes per a dibuixos de vent
2020
Book, staples and methacrylate
45 x 55 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Buscant la paraula justa
2020
Book, resin and methacrylate
82 x 98 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2020
Book and methacrylate
45 x 53 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2020
Book, resin, drawing and methacrylate
42,5 x 57,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Rellotge
2020
Iron, wire and methacrylate
30 x 40 x 65 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sin título
2020
Iron and plexiglass
30 x 30 x 45 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Sis lletres
2020
Methacrylate, book and ink
56 x 68 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
L’ombra d’un vidre
2020
Drawing, pigment, crystal ball and methacrylate
151,5 x 186,5 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
Llibre d’arquitectura
2020
Drypoint, methacrylate and book
60 x 80 cm