Jordi Alcaraz

Jordi Alcaraz - Architect's drawing (I)

Artist Biography: Jordi Alcaraz is an artist born in Calella in 1963, whose artistic discourse focuses on the reflection on volume, language and time through the use of materials such as water, glass, mirrors, reflections and books that include this idea. Through his work, Alcaraz establishes a metaphorical relationship with the world, characterized by visual transgression and the conjugation of transparencies and holes that allow us to glimpse hidden and magical spaces. The artist experiments with sculptures, paintings and drawings, always through his peculiar treatment of materials and his poetic play on words and unexpected titles. Through his obsession with the craft of art, Alcaraz delves into the exploration of the artist's work, focusing to a greater extent on the exercise of making and not on the work as the end of said action. As a result, works appear in which absence is more important than evidence and the permanence of action is what matters. Alcaraz's artistic career has been widely recognized internationally. He has exhibited in galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Trieste and Zurich, as well as in important institutions such as the Sala Tecla, the Telefónica Foundation, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Reattu Museum in Arles and the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels. In addition, his works are in collections such as the Biedermann Museum in Donaueschingen, Germany; the Fontanal Cisneros Collection in Miami; the Williams Collection in Massachusetts; Visual Smell in Barcelona; and the Banco Sabadell Foundation.