29 - JORGE GALINDO (Madrid, 1965).

JORGE GALINDO (Madrid, 1965). Untitled, 1997. Painting on photomontage. With Soledad Lorenzo Gallery label on the back. Provenance: Important Spanish Collection. Dated on the front. Size: 160 x 120 cm; 200 x 160 cm (frame). Jorge Galindo's works are framed within the framework of gestural abstraction and are characterised by the obsessive use of the collage technique, very often used in large format compositions. The artist often uses images from the media of the fifties and sixties, thus introducing a critique of capitalist and consumer society. Jorge Galindo began his artistic training at the Talleres de Arte Actual del Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, starting his exhibition career during the eighties, his first exhibition being held at the Galería Víctor Martín (Madrid, 1989) and in 1994 he exhibited at the Galería Soledad Lorenzo. His production has been characterised by research and experimentation in painting. His first productions were an example of experimentation with the material and tactile aspects of painting. Galindo's work is close to a type of gestural abstraction, giving great importance to the intervention of chance and material aspects. It is true that, from his first works, exhibited in the mid-eighties, Jorge Galindo combined painting with photographic collages. However, during the 1990s he experimented with photomontages in which he used images from the illustrated media of the 1950s and 1960s and in which he expresses a critique of consumer society. Galindo's work has developed through series with a clear thematic unity, although expressed with stylistic resources of complex variety. His most important series include Pintura animal, La vie des bêtes, exhibited in the MNCARS's Espacio Uno. His work has been exhibited in the most important galleries in the USA, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium.