Jorge Galindo

1965, Madrid, Spain

Passionate about the pictorial medium, Jorge Galindo is one of the most outstanding and original Spanish artists of his generation, and enjoys international prestige. Galindo began his exhibition activity at the end of the eighties of the last century linked to the Talleres de Arte Actual del Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

His first productions focused more on the material and tactile aspects than on the pictorial grammar, using canvas, burlap and other waste materials and even replacing the usual support of canvas with other found materials. Later, through collage and photomontage, distinctive techniques of his visual language, he incorporated into the pictorial space prints from calendars or magazines related to advertising or cinema. Galindo comes from the Spanish pictorial tradition and maintains a dramatic relationship with painting.

There is something tragic under the apparent joy of the colors and the expansive gesture. His work is a post-pictorial painting, freed from previous formal and conceptual limitations and characterized by an experimental dimension, by the ability to absorb and integrate diverse sources of popular culture and by showing a new understanding of the act of painting itself that allows it to develop freely and constantly reinvent itself.

Jorge Galindo currently lives and works in Porto, Portugal.