JORDI TEIXIDOR (Valencia, 1941).

JORDI TEIXIDOR (Valencia, 1941). Untitled, 1982. Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and located on the back. Measurements: 161 x 97,5 cm. In this work the author uses an abstract language, based on the irregular geometry, of organic character both in its outline and in the colors. It is an open style, whose basic characteristic is the conception of the pictorial surface as a whole, as an open field, without limits and without hierarchy. Thus, as we see here, the pictorial forms are the result of a thoughtful composition and experimentation, with an image of gestural character, are not limited to a composition but go beyond, indicating to the viewer that it is about forms, ideas or suggestions that go beyond the boundaries of the purely pictorial. Jordi Teixidor is one of the most prestigious Spanish abstract artists. Teixidor's early collaboration during the sixties with the Cuenca Group (Zobel, Rueda, Torner) in the founding of the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art set the pictorial tone for a committed art that Teixidor would follow for more than thirty years. In 1979 he received a grant from the Juan March Foundation that allowed him to live in New York for several years. There he got to know in depth the painting of the abstract expressionists of the New York School. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States including museums such as the IVAM in Valencia, where a major retrospective was held in 1997, the Santa Monica Center in Barcelona and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His rigid and austere sense of abstraction is evident in this oil painting, where orthogonality rules over the entire composition. The artist compensates this severe abstraction close to neoplasticism or suprematism with the expressive and emotive use of color, employing a bright red and a vivid yellow that combines with the black volume below.