Jordi Colomer was born in Barcelona in 1962, where he studied design at Escola EINA, history of art at Universitat de Barcelona, and architecture at l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). The knowledge of these three areas makes Colomer’s works become very transversal projects, focusing on the relationship between the human being and his environment, especially with the objects. In his beginnings, he shows interest in the space through the sculpture, the scenography, and the architectural elements. In this first stage, he lives in Paris between 1991 and 1995, where his influence of the architecture increases, but also the video starts to introduce his work. It evolves to pictorial structures, and Colomer investigates around the scenographical concept of the space, questioning the relationship between the architecture and space, frequently arbitrary.
Since 1996 photography and video are the principal elements of his work, often materialized in installations where we can see the objectivity of his previous work. Furthermore, it explores the dialogue established between the narrated fiction and the space where it is projected. A few years later, in 2001, his artistic topics are focused on the urban space and the interaction of the characters with it. He is currently considered one of the most prominent artists in the field of video installation in Spain..
He has exhibited all over the world, in places such as Jeu de Paume in France or MACBA in Spain, in addition to participating in the Biennale de Venezia and Manifesta (The European Biennial of Contemporary Art).
List of artworks
Dibuix complex , 1988
Se leve et se couche amb gran caracola , 1988
La puça F , 1992
Dibuix complex , 1988
Se leve et se couche amb gran caracola , 1988
La puça F , 1992
Press articles
1970 – 2001
Josep Suñol Collection
Conceptual art, minimal art and arte povera of extreme radicalism in its thinking, in dramatic contrast to attitudes since then.
Sculpture/Object
Josep Suñol Collection
36 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection, ranging from the early avant-garde up to the most daring experiments of the 1990s.
Dialogues of the Gaze
A selection of works from the Col·lecció Josep Suñol with the aim of reflecting on the importance of the gaze.
Everything Solid Fades Away
In Three Acts
The second act, titled Everything Solid Fades Away, is a journey through a group of works that allow us to understand the extent to which the abstract pulsation did...
Act 24: Documents and Memory. Josep Suñol Collection's Archive
Glòria Picazo and Jordi Colomer
Gloria Picazo and Jordi Colomer offer us a guided tour of the exhibition Act 24: Documents and Memory. Josep Suñol Collection's Archive.
Itineraries
Dialogues of the Gaze
EL QUE SAPS / EL QUE SENTS / EL QUE PERCEPS: tres itineraris de l'exposició Diàlegs de la mirada.
La Nit dels Museus 2016
Free entry on May 21st of 2016, from 7pm to 1am.
Sculpture/Object
The exhibition Sculpture/Object was the first of various commemorative events for Fundació Suñol’s 5th anniversary, held in 2012. It showed 36 pieces from the Collection.
