Jordi Boldó
The highly personal style of Jordi Boldó has roots in the work of the Mexican “Rupture” generation and European Informalist painters. His works oscillate between the representational and the abstract; the interplay of color, texture and the repetition of certain motifs presents the viewer with images that are non-narrative yet suggestive. Boldó’s artistic practice makes use of randomness and intuition as tools for the deconstruction of visual language. Crude, archetypal imagery floats within emotive swaths of paint— sensation and memory are distilled into simplified line and color.
His recent sculptural work transposes this practice into object form—and pulls gestures from his canvases into three-dimensional space. As a witness to the generational shift towards screen-based viewing, his forays into sculpture represent a human concern with tactile things—their movement, mass, form, relationships of scale—and their capacity for sensorial dialogue.
Jordi Boldó has been exhibiting work in Mexico and internationally since the 1970s. In 2000 he became a member of the National System for Artistic Creators of Mexico. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of the House of Diego Rivera, both in Mexico City, as well as numerous other collections in Mexico and abroad. …
The highly personal style of Jordi Boldó has roots in the work of the Mexican “Rupture” generation and European Informalist painters. His works oscillate between the representational and the abstract; the interplay of color, texture and the repetition of certain motifs presents the viewer with images that are non-narrative yet suggestive. Boldó’s artistic practice makes use of randomness and intuition as tools for the deconstruction of visual language. Crude, archetypal imagery floats within emotive swaths of paint— sensation and memory are distilled into simplified line and color.
His recent sculptural work transposes this practice into object form—and pulls gestures from his canvases into three-dimensional space. As a witness to the generational shift towards screen-based viewing, his forays into sculpture represent a human concern with tactile things—their movement, mass, form, relationships of scale—and their capacity for sensorial dialogue.
Jordi Boldó has been exhibiting work in Mexico and internationally since the 1970s. In 2000 he became a member of the National System for Artistic Creators of Mexico. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of the House of Diego Rivera, both in Mexico City, as well as numerous other collections in Mexico and abroad. He currently lives in Querétaro, Mexico.
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