LUIS GORDILLO (Seville, 1934). Untitled, 1981. Mixed media on panel.

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  LUIS GORDILLO (Seville, 1934). Untitled, 1981. Mixed media on panel. Signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 156,5 x 236,5 cm., 160 x 240 cm. (frame). The work is composed of two individual but inseparable pieces unique for the same frame and on the same board, forming a set that evokes chaos and calm, eclecticity, yin and yang. One of them, the one on the right, of abstract aesthetics, which plays with organic shapes and curved lines, giving the whole a dynamic sensation, to which is added a great expressiveness that the author has achieved through the colors and the background of those curved lines, in a more geometric way. The other, on the left, is a series of figures in different vignettes, fragmented and without apparent sense but with total harmony in which the viewer is immersed. In the whole, the idea of a decomposed, fragmented and reinterpreted figuration predominates, which induces the spectator's eye to go through the vignettes without order, looking indistinctly to one place or another. "Gordillo considers an image that is subjected to a continuous process of reproduction, and never reaches a definitive state. On the other hand, after the discovery and practice of psychoanalysis, he introduced in his work the interest in meanings and the link between the world of thought." Luis Gordillo is one of the main figures of abstract art in Spain. After studying law and music, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Seville. Between 1958 and 1960 he lived in Paris, where he was able to get to know an artistic and cultural environment full of freedom that influenced him deeply. deeply. His first works move within the registers of informalism, following the guidelines of Michaux, Tapies, Millares, Wols, etc.. Later he would evolve towards Pop aesthetics, of which he is one of the pioneers in Spain. Later Gordillo would add to his particular style technological research, the transformation of images in the media and photographic creation. Throughout his career Gordillo has had a very accentuated dilemma between a very direct and expressive work and on the other hand the realization of a very controlled work, very clean and perfectionist in which mechanical techniques such as offset, photography and more recently the computer have influenced since the 70's. The linear element, the mixture of mechanical techniques such as offset, photography and more recently the computer. The linear element, the mixture of techniques and the inclusion of symbolic graphic elements, such as letters, are of considerable importance and are close to informalism. Of great international prestige, he has been awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts (1981), the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts (1996), the Gold Medal of the Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid (2004) and the Velázquez Prize of Plastic Arts (2007). He has also been distinguished in 2008 with the Order of Knight of Arts and Letters of France by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. He has exhibited individually all over the world, and is represented in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, MACBA in Barcelona, the Juan March Foundation, the ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Folkwag Museum in Germany, etc.
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