Luis Gordillo

LUIS GORDILLO (Seville, 1934).
Untitled, 1991.
Silkscreen on 270 gr Velin d'Arches paper, copy 69/250.
Signed and numbered in pencil.
Measurements: 63 x 90 cm.
Luis Gordillo is one of the main figures of abstract art in Spain. After studying law and music he entered the School of Fine Arts of Seville. Between 1958 and 1960 he lived in Paris, where he was able to experience an artistic and cultural environment full of freedom that influenced him profoundly. His first works move within the informalism registers, following the guidelines of Michaux, Tapies, Millares, Wols, etc. Later he would evolve towards Pop aesthetics, of which he is one of the pioneers in Spain. Later Gordillo would add to his particular style technological research, the transformation of images in the mass media and photographic creation. Throughout his career Gordillo has had a very accentuated dilemma between a very direct and expressive work and on the other hand the realization of a very controlled work, very clean and perfectionist in which mechanical techniques such as offset, photography and more recently the computer have influenced since the 70's. The linear element, the mixture of mechanical techniques such as offset, photography and more recently the computer. The linear element, the mixture of techniques and the inclusion of symbolic graphic elements, such as letters, are of considerable importance in this work, which is close to informalism.
Of great international prestige, he has been awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts (1981), the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1996), the Gold Medal of the Fine Arts Circle of Madrid (2004) and the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts (2007). He has also been distinguished in 2008 with the Order of Knight of the Arts and Letters of France by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. He has exhibited individually all over the world, and is represented in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, MACBA in Barcelona, the Juan March Foundation, the ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Folkwag Museum in Germany, etc.