Jordi Alcaraz

JORDI ALCARAZ I TARRADAS (Calella, Barcelona, 1963).
"Pots vidre", circa 2005.
Wood, methacrylate, glass and coloured pigments. Exemplary 4/6.
It has slight damage to the methacrylate and an opening in the back left corner.
It has a methacrylate fanal and a wooden box made by the author.
Signed and justified on the base. Justified on the lid.
Measurements: 30 x 41 x 31 cm.
On this occasion, once again, he uses materials that can be linked to arte povera, and transparent materials (with which he reinterprets the meaning of "glazes" and transparencies), to investigate the encounters and misunderstandings between painting and sculpture, the empty and the full, space and its infinite dimensions.
Jordi Alcaraz began his artistic career in the field of sculpture and engraving. Since his beginnings, throughout these twenty-five years of activity, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Spain and in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Canada and Switzerland, and has been present at some of the most important fairs on the international contemporary art circuit (Arco, Art Basel, Art Frankfurt, Art Cologne, Art Chicago, Art Miami and Arte Lisboa, among others). Alcaraz's discourse departs from the classical tradition of painting and sculpture to arrive at a reflection on volume, language and time through the use of materials such as water, glass, mirrors, reflections, or books that include this idea. His artistic language is dominated by visual transgression, the interplay of different gazes and the combination of transparencies and holes that allow us to glimpse hidden, magical spaces. In this way Jordi Alcaraz establishes, through his works, an unprecedented, surprising and metaphorical relationship with the world. He is currently represented at the Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires in Palma de Mallorca, as well as in various private collections around the world.