Jorge R. Pombo

Jorge R. Pombo (Barcelona, 1973) is a contemporary Catalan artist whose training starts with the abstraction of the German school in Düsseldorf, in the wake of artists like Polke and Richter and at the same time a deep stimulation of Kline's work, Rothko's lyricism and romantic ideas of Friedrich and Turner. He began his artistic career from a reflection on the ambiguity of the representation of visible reality, through an interesting work on the effects of transparency and on the superposition of images from different backgrounds. Jorge R. Pombo has been going through different stages with diverse themes. First, the paintings starring almost abstract landscapes; then the variations of some outstanding works in the history of art, such as Christ Crucified by Velázquez, Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix or The miracle of San Marcos by Tintoretto. Almost at the same time he developed a series of cities and maps. His use of glazes, abstraction, plastic accidents, and blurred images are a manifestation of the double aspect of the artist as a meticulous constructor of a precise technique and deconstructor of the painting itself.