"Jordi Teixidor: Painting"
2006-08-05 until 2006-08-31
Michael Dunev Art Projects
Torroella de Montgri, , ES Spain

During the month of August Michael Dunev Art Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by the Valencia-born painter Jordi Teixidor. The early collaboration during the sixties between 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 painting of Rothko, Newman and other 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.

This will be his first exhibition in the Girona province. It will consist primarily of oils on canvas and paintings on paper of small and medium formats. The exhibition will open on Saturday, 5 August, beginning at 1930h, and will count with the presence of the artist.

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