The Job of Eden

Galeria Ramis Barquet, January 14 – February 26, 2005

Ramis Barquet is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Spanish artist Jorge Galindo.

Over the past decades, Jorge Galindo’s work has had an important presence in the European visual arts scene. 
His passionate, and at once, chaotic approach to the canvas was a testament to the strong artistic temperament of 
the early nineties. The use of a diversity of materials (some of them which had been formerly deemed as junk), 
the large formats, the tension of the canvas and the violence of the hand were all recurrent elements of the artist’s 
language at a certain period.

Since his last exhibition in New York in 1998, Galindo’s work has evolved to a figurative, and on occasions, 
almost clean depiction of subject matter. Having left behind the collage and the incorporation of foreign 
materials to the canvas, yet still working with large formats, the artist has taken on a new relationship with 
painting.

In “The Job of Eden”, Galindo presents six works that focus mainly on the representation of women using a 
strong element of sensuality. With tempera as his medium, the artist juxtaposes popular, almost calendar like, 
mid-century images of women with out of place, disproportionate and sometimes fantastic elements to create 
what he defines as “unreal paintings”. It is through this process that Galindo now attains the collage effect within 
his painting without the need to rely on external materials.

Jorge Galindo was born in Madrid, Spain in 1965, where he now lives and works. Galindo has exhibited 
extensively throughout Spain and Europe. His most recent exhibitions include a one-man show, Le Roi 
Ornamental, at Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (2003) and a group show, Suite Europa, organized by Spain’s 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which traveled through Europe and Spain in 2002.

For more information or photographs please contact Federica Simon at federica@ramisbarquet.com
Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 6.