Jordi Alcaraz

Jordi Alcaraz - Novel-la (II) (Novel [II] )

Technique: Book, methacrylate and resin

Artist Biography: Jordi Alcaraz is an artist born in Calella in 1963, whose artistic discourse focuses on the reflection about 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 glimpses of hidden and magical spaces.The artist experiments with sculptures, paintings and drawings, always through his peculiar treatment of materials and his poetic games of words and unexpected titles. Through his obsession with the craft of art, Alcaraz delves deeper into the exploration of the artist's work, focusing more on the exercise of doing rather than on the work as the end of that action. As a result, works appear in which absence is more important than evidence and the permanence of the 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 Telefonica 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; Olor Visual in Barcelona; and the Banco Sabadell Foundation.