Jordi Alcaraz

Jordi Alcaraz (Calella, Barcelona, 1963) considers himself a multidisciplinary artist. He began his artistic career as a sculptor and engraver. His work has been exhibited in individual and group exhibitions, in Madrid in the Brita Prinz and Nieves Fernández galleries, in Barcelona in the Joan Prats Gallery and the Tecla Sala de Hospitalet de Llobregat Cultural Center, in Palma de Mallorca in the Pelaires room, in Oviedo in the Vértice gallery, in Almagro in the Fúcares gallery, etc. He has also exhibited individually in various countries in Europe and America: in Germany, at the Michael Hass galleries in Berlin and Stephan Röpke in Cologne, Italy at the Galleria Torbandena in Trieste, in Canada, at Caroline Dimnik Contemporary, Toronto, United States, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts of Los Angeles, Switzerland, etc. He has attended international fairs, such as Arco, a fair in which he has regularly participated since 1997, Art Bassel, Arte Fiera (Bologna), Art Colonia, Art Chicago, Pulse New York (2008 and 2009), Miami Art Fair, Arte Lisboa , Toronto International Art Fair, etc. Starting from the traditional concepts of painting and sculpture, Alcaraz reflects on volume, language and time, through the use of elements such as water, glass, mirrors, reflection or books that recur in his work, to make in an artisanal and imaginative way painted sculptures or sculpted paintings. In his pictorial language, black and white and the interrelation of transparencies and holes prevail, making it possible to see arcane spaces, full of magic. He frequently resorts to surprising poetic plays on words in the titles of his works, in the tradition of the visual poems of Joan Brossa. He also plays with materials seeking to awaken curiosity in the viewer: crystals that melt or contract; pigmented pockets that sink into crystalline surfaces; wooden sculptures passing through methacrylate urns, which go from night darkness to daylight; a chromaticism that escapes from paint cans through imagined holes; black spots from which white paint oozes; impossible portraits. His works, using very simple elements, are in a way, as he himself explains, unfinished works, which seek to overcome the traditional limits of artistic genres.