Jorge Galindo

Málaga, June 16, 2023 The CAC Málaga presents 'Las flores salvajes', a major exhibition by the artist Jorge Galindo (1965, Madrid), one of the leading...

The Brooklyn Rail about Jorge Galindo`s current show at Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York and about his mesmerizing flower paintings. Find the full article...

In this latest edition published by BY PUBLICATIONS, Jorge Galindo's flower paintings are shown in unique photographs. These photographs were taken by Jean Marie at different times during the painting process.

In the new issue of Spunk: Performance, Steve Cox writes an essay about two performance pieces of Jorge Galindo, which he created in collaboration with the artist Santiago Sierra: the performance "Money Paintings" from 2014 and the performance "La Pintura y la Furia" (The Painting and the Fury) which took place in 2009 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), curated by Rafael Doctor Roncero.

The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by Spanish artist Jorge Galindo to be held at its Schloss Derneburg location. A suite of Galindo’s new monumental flower paintings will be shown alongside a group of works realized last year in collaboration with internationally-acclaimed and award-winning filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar.

We can imagine these immense oils on canvas, painted either on the floor or the wall, or perhaps both, where the oversized roses float freely in their painterly world, including variously executed speeds of brushwork, splashes, splatters, footprints, imprints of paint cans, among other accidental elements, all of which are harmoniously integrated. We can feel the pain of the dismemberment of gigantic roses exploding without their stems, and vice versa. The erotic and sensual brushstrokes in thick carnal colors of reds, pinks, ochres, and browns erotically elicit what de Kooning famously said, “Flesh was the reason oil painting was invented.” This fleshiness is exactly what Galindo’s roses seem to exude.

Painting by Jorge Galindo & Pedro Almodóvar opened on May 15 at the Museum of Santa Cruz de Toledo and is on view until September 5. These nearly thirty large-format works were created during several joint work sessions and are made up of enlarged still life photographs of flowers taken by Almodóvar that were painted over with oil paints in Galindo's trademark style.⁠

"The pioneering course in modern art that Barr initiated at Wellesley is said to be the first of its kind in the American academy. It became a subject of lively public discussion when Barr's remarkably comprehensive Modern Art Questionnaire - an entrance exam he devised to screen students for his Wellesley course - was published in its entirety as a feature in Vanity Fair, a magazine then widely read in literary and art circles." - from "The man who created MOMA" by Hilton Kramer. Until this day, Vanity Fair continues to discuss fine art and currently examines Jorge Galindo's Postcard Paintings exhibition at PULPO GALLERY in Murnau: "Jorge Galindo’s Postcard Paintings are of monumental scale. To call them floral still lifes doesn’t do them justice. The combination of silk-screened canvases and dynamic brushstrokes builds a bridge between romantic longing and contemporary painting."

"Two somewhat different views of Murnau are currently presented by artist Jorge Galindo at Murnau's Pulpo Gallery." Local newspaper Murnauer Tagblatt discusses one of Jorge Galindo's postcard paintings depicting the casle and the parish church of St. Nicholas.

ARTFORUM SPOTLIGHT discusses Jorge Galindo's show Postcard Paintings which will be on view at PULPO GALLERY from April 19 to May 16, 2021: "His fascination with postcards, when viewed against the backdrop of social distancing and isolation, brought about by the COVID pandemic, shines a special light on his work. What’s the meaning of postcards in a time where photos and messages are conveyed via social media, oftentimes before the sender even grasps their meaning? Doesn’t a postcard, handwritten and carefully selected, carry new significance, in a time where special occasions cannot be celebrated in the company of others? What do postcards mean when the journeys from which they greet do not take place?"

Brooklyn Rail publisher Phong Bui talked to Julian Schnabel in the studio space of Pallazo Chupi. Showing his admiration and enthusiasm for Spanish painters Felicidad Moreno and Jorge Galindo, Julian said: "Jorge Galindo, who is - I think - absolutely the best painter in Spain." ... "The mark making and the scale about how he can move a brush around is, they are exuberant and very succinct. The mark making is very economical and at the same time physical and victorian."

The spanish newspaper El Pais discusses Jorge Galindo's and Pedro Almodóvar's collaboration.

Jorge Galindo (Madrid, 1965), one of the most active and sought after Spanish artists since the late eighties, has turned the ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum into a gigantic collage.

To a certain extent his current paintings are also collages, but the cuttings he uses are not images of provocative women, but shavings of paper money, the residue of the destruction of euro banknotes, which resemble the straw that appears in some of Tàpies' paintings, on which he has dripped paint, in a broad gesture that has its origin in Miró's surrealism and its peak in Pollock's painting.

Jorge Galindo's "Pintura animal" will be on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from March 9, 1999 to April 7, 1999. This series of seven paintings critices "the false interpretation of abstract painting, the excess in domestic decorative order and the abundance of images that surround contemporary humans". The series depicts dogs and other animals that are complemented by naked female or male torsos, thus causing a feeling of displacement and discomfort with the viewer. Criticizing mass culture, the paintings highlight the lack of filters by the reader and consumer.