UNTIL SUNDAY 5/6
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Jordi Weaver he is in love with the work of Henri Matisse, that fera fauvist who put the expressiveness of color at the center of the creation, displacing the drawing with a stroke of the hip. The French was looking for an abstraction of form centered on color, but it was still inspired by external models. Several decades have passed between the time of Matisse and that of weaver, Who, purifying, purifying - also when abstraction was not seen with good eyes -, has ended up being a paradigm of contemporary Spanish abstraction, a fact that made him deserving of the National Plastic Arts Award 2014. The large-scale work that gives its name to the exhibition, Be part of it. The River, is inspired by a piece by Matisse called Bathers by the riverpainted with a restricted color palette and simple shapes that reveal his interest in Cubism. Teixidor's reinterpretation is made of vertical lines or bands of the same colors as the original work and is accompanied by black paintings flanked by works by Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt, two of the intellectual references of the Valencian who have led him to seek the sobriety of forms, the silence and the spiritual force of painting, flag of another of its great references, Mark Rothko. The IVAM sample collects, from Teixidor's most emblematic works of the seventies, to the most recent and unreleased production: paintings of a strident yellow that invoke Mondrian's reticular square, small-format works that replicate the exquisite geometry and austerity of still lifes such as those of the baroque Juan van der Hamen, drawing with expressionist roots made during his New York period and black paintings that conceptually explore stripping and emptiness. Don't be nervous about the absence of recognizable figurative elements, there is nothing to understand (although it is more enjoyed Be part of it. The River if you know the work of Matisse in which it is inspired), all you have to do is enjoy one of the most ground-breaking artistic languages in art at the world level by the Valencian Jordi Teixidor. S.M.
