Jorge Galindo del Río began to attend the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1987, and became a regular presence in art circles in the 1990s. His vitalist style is a reflection of his passion for pictorial art, in which he switches between the figurative and the abstract. Most of his works are large-format. He sees their surfaces as a complex conceptual space where there is a confluence of linguistic heterogeneities which are both autonomous and interconnected, based on collageand photo-montage. Plays on scale predominate in his compositions, alongside fragmentation and splits in a style that owes much to pop art and a sense of the surreal. His series Patchwork (1996-1998) mixes pictorial gestures with colour and figurative elements in the recycled materials that he uses as the backing for his works. His photo-montages take images from the mass media, mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, and create iconic juxtapositions of all kinds. He brings them together with a pictorial treatment sometimes provided by specialist film poster creators, displacing the consumer element of the images and their temporary nature and resignifying them in the present.
His first solo exhibition took place in 1989. Since then his works have been shown internationally at venues including the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 1999), the Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary art in Extremadura (Badajoz, 2000), the Culturgest Chiado 8 Arte Contemporánea (Lisbon, 2004), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (León, 2009) and the Fine Arts Museum in Santander (2010). He has also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions at venues including the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1989 & 1992), the Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles, USA (1999), the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid (2006 & 2011), the José Guerrero Centre in Granada (2006), the Visual Arts Centre at the Helga de Alvear Foundation in Cáceres (2011, 2012, 2013 & 2016), the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2013) and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. (2014) (along with Santiago Sierra). In 2017 he exhibited at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum as part of the third edition of the 'Reinterpretada' ['Reinterpreted'] project.
Jorge Galindo del Río began to attend the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1987, and became a regular presence in art circles in the 1990s. His vitalist style is a reflection of his passion for pictorial art, in which he switches between the figurative and the abstract. Most of his works are large-format. He sees their surfaces as a complex conceptual space where there is a confluence of linguistic heterogeneities which are both autonomous and interconnected, based on collage and photo-montage. Plays on scale predominate in his compositions, alongside fragmentation and splits in a style that owes much to pop art and a sense of the surreal. His series Patchwork (1996-1998) mixes pictorial gestures with colour and figurative elements in the recycled materials that he uses as the backing for his works. His photo-montages take images from the mass media, mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, and create iconic juxtapositions of all kinds. He brings them together with a pictorial treatment sometimes provided by specialist film poster creators, displacing the consumer element of the images and their temporary nature and resignifying them in the present.
His first solo exhibition took place in 1989. Since then his works have been shown internationally at venues including the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 1999), the Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary art in Extremadura (Badajoz, 2000), the Culturgest Chiado 8 Arte Contemporánea (Lisbon, 2004), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (León, 2009) and the Fine Arts Museum in Santander (2010). He has also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions at venues including the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1989 & 1992), the Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles, USA (1999), the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid (2006 & 2011), the José Guerrero Centre in Granada (2006), the Visual Arts Centre at the Helga de Alvear Foundation in Cáceres (2011, 2012, 2013 & 2016), the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2013) and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. (2014) (along with Santiago Sierra). In 2017 he exhibited at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum as part of the third edition of the 'Reinterpretada' ['Reinterpreted'] project.