Gordillo, Luis.
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Luis Gordillo was born in Seville in 1934. He studied law and music. Then he decided to be a painter and he studied, during two years, at the School of Fine Arts in Seville. [+]
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Gordillo, Luis
Luis Gordillo was born in Seville in 1934. He studied law and music.
Then he decided to be a painter and he studied, during two years, at the School of Fine Arts in Seville.
From 1958 to 1960 he lived in Paris and he took the opportunity to studied museus and cinematheques. During these years Gordillo was inspired by artists like Michaux, Tàpies, Millares, Wols... and his painting was related to the informalism.
When he left Paris, Gordillo had a crisis and he stopped painting for a few years. In 1963 he started to paint again, but this time his style followed the Pop aesthetic, considering himself as one of the pioneers of that movement in Spain. Also during this period a new geometric influence appeared in his style of painting.
In 1970, after another artistic crisis Gordillo started to paint paintings full of color with a new element: irony. In addition Gordillo realized an extensive technological research, related to the transformation of the media imatges and the photographic creation. In this moment he had two important exhibitions: one at the Galeria Maeght in Barcelona (1976) and another one at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao (1981).
In the 80s Gordillo added another change in his painting. This became more abstract and less colorful until it was able to creat a bridge that united it to the informalist abstraction. Concepts like meandrica situation will be basics from the painting of the 80s until now and it is based on the search of a path for a linear and monochrome spot that is spreading throughout the painting. During all his career Gordillo has had the dilemma between a direct and expressive work and the realization of a clean and perfeccionist artwork in which has been including mechanical techniques such as photography or the computer, among others.
Gordillo during his artistic career had received different awards like the National Prize for Visual Arts in 1981, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 1996, the Velázquez Prize for Visual Arts in 2007 or the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 2008.
