Jordi Teixidor

Jordi Teixidor, born in Valencia in 1941, is considered one of the leading exponents of abstraction in Spain. Identified with critical thought and the modern tradition, his work seeks to capture the spirit of doubt and critique, delving into abstraction and a rational, Apollonian, balanced, and strongly restrained painting based on expressive elements. Rather than seeking satisfaction, Teixidor's modernity is reflective, and his work incites thought and rejects any narrative reading. Rather than being a tour de force about the possibilities of abstraction, his work should be understood as an aesthetic and intellectual reflection on the limits of painting, seeking "non-painting" and the unrealizable desire to create the definitive painting, expressing his sense of ethical and political failure. Teixidor has formalized a serious sequence of images through the use of black, which constitutes one of the most notable tragic expressions of contemporary Spanish painting. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in institutions such as the Spanish Academy in Rome, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the UNAM Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Bulgaria, Caja Burgos and the IVAM, among others. In 1980, he participated in the exhibition "New Images from Spain" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and his work is part of the collections of the Guggenheim in New York, MNCARS in Madrid, IVAM in Valencia, the Juan March Foundation, the Bank of Spain Collection, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Stuveysan Collection in Amsterdam, the Museo Patio Herreriano, CAAM in Las Palmas, the MOMA in San Francisco, the La Caixa Foundation and the Berkeley Museum.