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Jordi Teixidor
The
early collaboration during the sixties between Valencia-born Jordi Teixidor
and the Cuenca Group (Zobel, Rueda, Torner) in the founding of the Hanging
Houses Museum of Abstract Spanish Art in Cuenca lay the seed for a committed
art of rigid and austere abstraction that Teixidor was to follow for more
than thirty years. In 1979 he received a grant from the Juan March Foundation,
enabling him to travel to New York, where he lived for several years.
There, he discovered the Abstract Expressionists of the New York School,
opening for him the transcendental possibilities inherent in painting.
Characterised by a reductionist aesthetic and a limited chromatic range,
the paintings of Teixidor dig deeply into the unconscious, with bands
of colour ranging from sombre blacks to expressive gestural marks that
underline the complexity of the human spirit. Evoking the devotional paintings
of Mark Rothko or the icons of Andrej Rublev, these works let the viewer
into a meditative space that broadens the limits of our perception.
Jordi Teixidor has exhibited extensively in one-person and group shows
across Europe and the United States, including museums such as the IVAM,
Valencia, where in 1997 he had an important retrospective, the Centro
Santa Mónica de Barcelona and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum of
New York. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the most
prestigious museums and institutions. |
