Luis Gordillo is a reference painter for successive generations of artists. He has been able to make his own—many times with an intuitively anticipatory character—diverse artistic approaches. From Informalism, Surrealism and Automatism of the sixties, Pop figuration, advertising and the comic universe in the seventies, the shift towards abstraction and the emphasis on ideas of process and deconstruction of the image in the 80s and 90s.
From this perspective, it is not surprising at all the concern he continues to demonstrate in exploring new expressive territories by integrating successive digital technological advances and expanding on certain principles already characteristic of his pictorial production: accumulation, superposition, collage, repetition of certain structures that persist in more or less extensive series of works.
Thus, acrylic, drawing, digital photography, mixed techniques, are combined with the expert decision of the master, forming an extraordinarily diverse panorama within an unmistakable unity.
The work in the Collection exemplarily reflects the processes and procedures he has developed throughout the nineties. In them, the additive juxtaposition of independent and interrelated modules stands out, as well as the repetition through variations of structures and models that not only play with other parts of the same painting, but also make reference to other works.
Text provided by the Mediterranean Foundation. Author: J. B. Peiró.
The artist has been using photography since the early 1970s with the aim of finding other options to the dominant color in his painting: to open an investigation that neutralizes his violent use of complementary colors.
