Jordi Colomer (born in
Barcelona, 1962) is a Spanish artist. He lives and works in Paris and Barcelona. Colomer has worked in the media of sculpture, video, and installation art.
Biography
Colomer studied at the School Eina of Art and Design, History of Art and Architecture in Barcelona. He has worked as a set designer for theater works by
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Robert Ashley. In his first period, he developed sculptures of an architectural scale, walkable buildings, and references to the theater and its devices. In 1996 he began working with videos, in the form of micro-narratives where the characters are confronted with objects, sets, and props. Examples include ''Simo'' (1997) and ''Le Dortoir'' (2001).
The video series ''Anarchitekton'' (2002–2004),
is one of his most emblematic; in the four cities of Barcelona,
Bucharest,
Brasilia, and
Osaka, the character called
Idroj Sanicne carries cardboard models and replicas of real buildings. Through changes of scale he describes a sarcastic and critical drift. Other important works are ''Arabian Stars'' (2005), filmed in
Yemen, ''A Crime'' (2005), ''No Future'' (2006), and ''En la Pampa'' (2008), a five-screen installation filmed at the
Atacama desert in northern
Chile.
In 2008 the
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris hosted a major retrospective exhibition of his work. He is represented in numerous museums and collections:
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,
Centre Georges Pompidou
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, Paris,
MUMOK, Vienna,
MACBA, Barcelona. His work is represented by Galerie Michel Rein (Paris), Galería Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid), and
Meessen De Clercq, (Brussels). Colomer represented Spain at 57th
Venice Biennale, 2017. **
References
* José-Luis Barrios, Marie-Ange Brayer, Mario Flecha, Marta Gili, Bernard Marcadé, Marti Peran, François Piron, Christine Van Assche et al. ''Fuegogratis: Jordi Colomer'', le point du jour editeur-jeu de paume, Paris, 2008.
External links
Website** Adrian Searle, The Guardian, about Venice Biennale 201
1962 births
Living people
Artists from Catalonia
Spanish video artists
Artists from Barcelona
Spanish contemporary artists
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