Flowers of Romance : Jorge Galindo

VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery by renowned Spanish artist Jorge Galindo. Titled Flowers of Romance, the show features 16 works, most of them monumental in scale, which occupy all three exhibition rooms. All the pieces revolve around floral motifs, a recurring theme in the artist’s recent production.

Jorge Galindo is regarded as one of the most significant Spanish painters of his generation. Since the late 1980s, his work has asserted painting as a necessary form of expression in a contemporary world that often sidelines it. His practice explores the tension between the painted surface and its relationship with both the canvas and the imagery produced by modern society. Galindo frequently incorporates secondary materials such as magazines, wallpaper, and postcards, many of them found at flea markets, which give his works a collage-like appearance. The fusion of these elements with a vividly gestural and chromatically intense painting style defines his unmistakable visual language.

The works on view recall the scale and visual power of commercial formats such as banners and billboards, supports that the artist experimented with in the early stages of his career. These large dimensions add a physical and almost painful quality to the act of painting, turning seemingly gentle floral motifs into dramatic, even tragic, events. The bouquets appear amidst imprints, splashes, and intense gestures, dominated by a vibrant palette rich in reds, pinks, and blues. Through this approach, Galindo offers a renewed vision of still life, a genre traditionally associated with stillness, serenity, and delicacy.

Jorge Galindo (Madrid, 1965) lives and works in Porto, Portugal. His work has been shown in national and international institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CAC Málaga, Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri, and Hall Art Foundation Schloss Derneburg, among others.