Jordi Alcaraz

Art Brokerage: Jordi Alcaraz Spanish Artist: b. 1963. Jordi Alcaraz was born 1963 in Calella, near Barcelona. His works have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Canada, Switzerland, and Spain in galleries and museums, and have been featured in international art fairs throughout the U.S. and Europe. Utilizing various tools and materials much like an alchemist, Alcaraz creates realms as ambiguous as those of his Catalonian antecedents, such as found in the minimal spaces of Miro or in the surreal other-worldly landscapes of Dali. Where his elder contemporary Antoni Tapies created astounding walls and doors - marked and eroded - evidencing both the surreal and the real, Alcaraz extends those notions, going beyond surface. Even boundaries created by frames enclosing his paintings and drawings are altered in unexpected ways. Alcaraz opens new realms in a Zen-like manner through the use of bending, tearing and puncturing materials in unpredictable ways. In another work, El Temps' an antique carved wood figure gently extends her hand through its vitrine, melting away one dimension into another. Alcaraz's aesthetic, verging on the minimal, brings the consideration of beauty and meditation to uniquely profound levels in conceptual art today. Listings wanted.