Eduardo Alcoy

EDUARDO ALCOY (Barcelona, 1930 - Mataró 1987).
"Character.
Ink on paper.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 44 x 30 cm; 72 x 57 cm (frame).
Artist belonging to the generation of artists formed during the postwar period, Eduardo Alcoy approached informalism and the influences of Tàpies. In 1957, together with Hernández Pijúan, Rovira-Brull and Carles Planell, he formed the "Grupo Sílex".
Alcoy's career was focused on advertising and graphics, disciplines that provided him with meticulousness and a detailed finish in his work. His unique dedication to painting took place during 1970, having a closer contact with the different agents and artistic-cultural circles. A constructivist language was born, linked to cubism in terms of the conception of forms, which led him to the volumetric study of surfaces. His compositions have a vocabulary full of symbolism, stairs that come out of nowhere and lead to nowhere, demons with articulated arms, half faces without foreheads, clocks, numbers, animals, balconies, bushes, Ku-klux-klan figures, quixotes, madmen, frames, fish, hats, crows, bullfighters, cross-eyed women, monocles and, suddenly, an enormous emptiness. Alcoy always has a tragic fantasy whose poetic and dramatic humanism recalls the magical vertigo of El Bosco, but always with a bitterly sarcastic and poetically emotive background.