Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer (14 January 1928 – 16 April 2015) Born in L’Hospitalet del Llobregat,

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), Spain. He lived and worked in

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. During the 1950s, he was one of the most distinguished painters of

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, known for creating a private language. He belonged to the

Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depressi ...

and European

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. These

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vanguardists have been characterized by their

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, manifested in their contrasting pictorial textures, and the need to invent a new mindset. Jiménez-Balaguer's purpose was to establish a framework of knowledge of the human psyche based on

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's language model, in order to show how painting is a universal medium for the understanding of

the Self In philosophy, the self is an individual's own being, knowledge, and values, and the relationship between these attributes. The first-person perspective distinguishes selfhood from personal identity. Whereas "identity" is (literally) samen ...

. He regarded the construct of the Self as indispensable, and its visualization as vital; the human inner is neither an impalpable, untouchable soul nor an invisible, immaterial ego. His conception of creation and society involves him in a process of a permanent revolution, from which the subject must struggle for the construction of the Self. His work asserts that the Self is a performative act. Jose María Moreno Galván in 1960 considered him one of the twenty most talented painters of Contemporary Catalan Art.
Two fundamental archetypes structure his field: the Body-Memory and the Exterior-Interior.

Early years

Early on, Jiménez-Balaguer paints androgynous figures that exude a metaphysical sentiment. His portraits emphasize what is within, unmarked by

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

cultural identity Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity (social science), identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, Locality (settlement), locality, gender, o ...

. Like El Greco, one of his artistic references, he seeks the transcendental essence of being. In 1955, he abandons all description of the world in order to focus on the problem of transforming the invisible to visible. He considers that painting allows for true knowledge of oneself, with the projection of raw material. Following the parameters of

Western philosophy Western philosophy refers to the Philosophy, philosophical thought, traditions and works of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of Western culture, beginning with the ancient Greek philosophy of the Pre ...

, he thinks that all expression is an expression of something; therefore, the sign refers to a reality that constructs the object at the same time as the meaning.
According to this tradition, everything is related and has its corresponding channels: everything is connected and meaning is constructed by

analogy Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. In logic, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as oppose ...

. His concept of ''Other Reality'' arises from here, as well as his work regarding boundaries and the concept of limit.

The real In continental philosophy, the Real refers to reality in its unmediated form. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, it is an "impossible" category because of its inconceivability and opposition to expression. In depth psychology The Real is the ...

, understood symbolically, is found between the Interior and the Exterior, between Corporality and

Memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembe ...

. One of his most important contribution to Catalan Informalism and 21st century painting is referencing this 'Other Reality' as a linguistic-pictorial sign.
During these formative years, surrounded by political turmoil, he actively participates in the recognition of a Catalan identity. He learns to write in his language, Catalan, which was prohibited in

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.
It is years of experimentation for the painter as he works on the hidden matter, that which one keeps inside one's psyche: the fragile and subjective.
Jiménez-Balaguer believes: "That which is sensed is a reflection of the intelligible", and he does not cease searching for the fundamental concept of

individuation The principle of individuation, or ', describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinct from other things. The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Simondo ...

and

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Catalan Lyrical Abstraction

At the age of twenty, he goes to the mountains of the monastery in Montserrat and begins to paint with his friend,

Josep Guinovart Josep Guinovart i Bertran (20 March 1927 in Barcelona – 12 December 2007 in Barcelona) was a Spanish painter best known for his informalist or abstract expressionist work. In 1941, he began to work as a decorator. Three years later, he star ...

, experimenting a new freedom and liberating himself of the contingency of convention. He meets Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera and his wife Mercedes de Prat, and a close friendship ensues.
He publishes a manifesto, He Escuchado, whereby he defines his aspirations along the vein of

Stanley Cavell Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, ...

: 'Claim is what a voice does when it founds within itself in order to establish a universal assertion.' His sensibilities are along the lines of

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regarding his defense of the body as the subject, and

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: 'The human body is the best image of the human soul.'
He exhibits in Ciclo Experimental d’Art Nou directed by Josep Maria de Sucre i de Grau and Angel Marsá and his paintings enrich the contemporary Catalan art scene. At the Galería Clan in Madrid, he receives the invaluable support of Manolo Millares, El Paso (grupo) and

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, the latter becoming a good friend and inviting him to continue their contact. The goal is to impede the obstruction of expression and obtain total freedom of the Self. In 1956, the art critic Juan-Eduardo Cirlot includes him in the Art Informal movement.
Catalan identity is in search of specificity, and is in opposition to the official art sanctioned by

. The painters of the 20th century, mainly

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, insist on the need for a new art.
In 1957, in the European May Salons, intellectuals such as

Antoni Tàpies Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tápies, Marquess of Tàpies (; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalans, Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist. Life The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni T ...

and Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer, present their latest works. All the Informalist painters evince a critical vision against a world of oppression and exclusion, dominated by diverse imperialisms.

Informalism and Information

In the 1970s, in dialogue with the poststructuralist period, he continues to explore the possibilities of a knowledge of the Self. From then on, his work heralds a new period based on the understanding of the problem of human expression and its inabilities, inhibitions, prohibitions, and negations; Jiménez-Balaguer's paintings are a projection of the visualization of the unknown Inner.
In spite of the abstraction of the images, he finds no reason they would be mysterious, magical nor mute; instead, they should be able to communicate meaning. The utility of a sign, is its power to give universal information that allows giving the subject more power. Although, Inform in Catalan language, is that which has no form, Jiménez-Balaguer chooses to investigate the second meaning of the word. As all words, 'inform' is not a univocal concept but a polysemous one. 'Inform' is also an exhaustive and organized exposition regarding a topic.
Therefore, according to Jiménez-Balaguer, Informal is telling information that still has no form, and Informalism is the science of the formation of the meaning. Informalism becomes, from this perspective, the artistic current that visualizes the space where significance is built. File:Jiménez-Balaguer_Toi_et_Moi_2010.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer You and Me 2010 File:Jiménez-Balaguer_1988.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer Untitled 1988 File:Jiménez-Balaguer_Dehors-Dedans_1995.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer Outside-Inside 1995 File:Jiménez-Balaguer_Réalité_Autre_1987.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer Other Reality 1987

In Defense of Subjectivity

His work demonstrates a deep respect for

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. It is constructed as a critique against contemporary society that produces the destruction of

subjectivity The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Various understandings of this distinction have evolved through the work of countless philosophers over centuries. One b ...

. During these years, Jiménez-Balaguer concerns himself with the power of painting as force.
He thinks that the informalist image bears witness to a semiotic pre-symbolic memory.
It is during this time that he frees himself from the destruction of the 1950s and the scratchings of postwar Informalism, in order to step into the 21st century. As such, after the amputations, the fragmentation of the image, the details of the wound, the assimilation of negativity and violence exercised against the matter of the Self, there is the human psyche that is capable of reconstructing itself.
Jiménez-Balaguer focuses his art on the transformation of violence into

Form Form is the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object. In a wider sense, the form is the way something happens. Form may also refer to: *Form (document), a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter dat ...

Constitution of a universal language of the Self

During the 1960s, Jiménez-Balaguer and his wife María Teresa Andreu (Mery) relocate to Paris and establish themselves in the intellectual milieu. They have four children, Cristian, Virginie, Valérie and Eric. He meets the Parisian jeweler, Jean Vendome.
In 1961, he is introduced to Antoni Clavé and Stephen Spender from Gallery Saint-Germain. From then on and for the next twenty years, he develops a language of signs able to communicate

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of the Self.
As such, it is a

deconstruction In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understand the relationship between text and meaning. The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from ...

of the idea that a private language cannot be understood by another. For Jiménez-Balaguer, the Inner has as a destiny: universal communication. In 1986, he meets

Michel Tapié Michel Tapié de Céleyran (; 26 February 1909 – 30 July 1987) was a French art critic, curator, and collector. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s a ...

, the originator of the concept 'Art Autre' and he is introduced to Rodolphe Stadler.
From 1988 onward, he introduces a series of objects of the world in order to express the inward. His paintings become an enunciation with branches, ropes, cloth, grids, and nails. File:Jiménez-Balaguer_Intervalles_Bleus_1988.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer Blue Intervals 1988 File:Jiménez-Balaguer_Imaginer_l%27Impossible_1993.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer Imagining the Impossible 1993 File:Jiménez-Balaguer_Vertige_Cosmique_1979.jpg, Jiménez-Balaguer Cosmic Vertigo 1979

Painting as interface

Jiménez-Balaguer's work gains the approbation and support of

Pierre Restany Pierre Restany (22 June 1930 – 29 May 2003), was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher. Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning ...

and is introduced to Joan Hernández-Pijuan at the Galeria Calart Actual in Geneva. From 1990, Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer devises the first system of signs for a universal language of the Inner. Each painting becomes the space for the visualization of the universal language of the Self from which the construction of the subject is confirmed.
His work questions the classic attributes of the subject:

time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

, acquired memory, and

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. His works enquire on such elements. In 2000, he begins his philosophical dialogues with Alexis Virginie Jimenez on Catalan Art and Informalism; together, they create the artistic movement known as New Informalism. The movement begins in the year 2000 in his studio in Chevry II, in Gif sur Yvettes.
The theoretical base is related to the New Cultural studies. Alexis Virginie Jimenez's art videos, ‘Interventions’, are taped there. Jiménez-Balaguer's work shares certain core values intrinsic to the field of

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and the theoretical struggle of intellectuals such as

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Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

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, Alexis Virginie Jimenez,

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.
The artist questions what to do with the cardinal points of Western metaphysics and how to interpret a new vision of the human identity.

Artwork : Universal graphic lexicon

The ropes: symbolize the ties that unite the invisible Inner of man to the universal Totality. 'The rope is an emblematic material of the road that brings the artist to the territory of Informalism's Art Autre.' Blue branches: symbol of the wanderings of the soul and its realization in a unitarian form. The knots: these are psycho-noetic strokes of subjective elaboration.

Principal exhibitions

;2023 Which humanity ? Existential figurations in the post-war period (1940-1966), MNAC, Barcelona – Spain Expository commissioner Alex Mitrani, text Boris Cyrulnik ;2016 L'Hospitalet remembers Jiménez-Balaguer, Tecla Sala Art Center, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat - Spain - Expository commissioner Antoni Perna, text 'Towards what kind of Humanity?' Alexis Virginie Jimenez ;2015 Allò sagrat de Jiménez-Balaguer - obras 1956-2014, Montserrat Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain ;2014 La memòria de la matèria, Hospitalet Museum, L’Harmonia - Art center - L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain ;2012 Cicle Invasions Subtils amb Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer, Fundació Espai Guinovart, Agramunt – Catalonia – Spain - expository commissioner and text Syvia Muñoz ;2012 L’Emergència del Signe, Museo Can Framis, Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona – Catalonia – Spain ;2010 "El Cos d’una memòria", Galeria Art Vall, Andorra la Vella – Andorra ;2010 "Le Nœud", Galerie Saint Cyr, Rouen – France ;2007 "Cuerpo de una memoria", Galeria Calart Actual, Segovia – Spain ;2006 "L'au-delà du miroir", Galerie Guislain-États d'Art, Paris – France ;2003 "Œuvres de 1960 à 1962" et "Souvenirs enfouis", Rétrospective, Galerie Guislain-États d'Art, Paris – France ;2002 "Traces d'une mémoire", Centre d'Études Catalanes, Paris – France ;2000 "Exposition", Galerie Guislain-États d'Art, Paris – France ;1999 "2000 ans de quoi ?", Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris – France ;1999 "2000 ans de quoi ?", Grand Théâtre d’Angers, Angers – France ;1998 "Dedans/Dehors", La Corderie Royale, Rochefort – France ;1998 MPT Courdimanche, Les Ulis – France ;1997 "Images d'une mémoire", Les Cordeliers, Châteauroux – France ;1997 Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris – France ;1996 Galerie Finartis, Zug – Switzerland ;1995 Galerie Calart, Genève – Switzerland ;1994 Galerie Rami, Zurich – Switzerland ;1994 Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris – France ;1993 Galerie Adriana Schmidt, Cologne – Germany ;1992 Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris – France ;1992 Galerie Adriana Schmidt, Stuttgart – Germany ;1991 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Corbeil-Essonnes – France ;1991 Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris – France ;1991 Galerie Rami, Zurich – Switzerland ;1990 Galerie Calart, Genève – Switzerland ;1989 Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris – France ;1987 "Réalité autre", Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris – France ;1985 Paris Art Center, Paris – France ;1984 Grand Orient de France, Paris – France ;1982 International Arts Gallery, Chicago – United States ;1981 Galerie Vienner, Paris – France ;1980 Galerie Vienner, Paris – France ;1980 Musée Napoléonien, Antibes-Golfe-Juan – France ;1979 Galerie Vienner, Paris – France ;1977 Réalisation de huit grandes créations murales pour le Centre Hospitalier de Creil, Creil – France ;1969 Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis – United States ;1963 Joachim Gallery, Chicago – United States ;1961 Galerie Saint-Germain, Paris – France ;1961 Savage Gallery, London – United Kingdom ;1961 Galerie Toulouse, Copenhagen – Denmark ;1959 Galerie J.C. de Chaudun, Paris – France ;1959 Galerie Mistral, Brussels – Belgium ;1959 Centre Culturel et Artistique d'Uccle, Brussels – Belgium ;1957 Club Universitari de València, Valencia – Spain ;1957 Galeria d'Art Jaimes, Barcelona – Catalonia – Spain ;1956 Galeria Clan, Madrid – Spain ;1956 Galeria d'Art Quint, Palma de Mallorca – Balearic Islands – Spain ;1955 "Ciclo Experimental d’Art Nou", Galeries Jardin, Barcelona – Catalonia – Spain ;1955 Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona – Catalonia – Spain ;1955 Galeria Sur, Santander – Spain ;1952 Casino de Ripoll, Ripoll – Spain

Retrospectives

* Fundació Vila Casas, Can Framis, Barcelona – Spain

Museums/Public collections

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, Barcelona – Spain * Museu de l’Hospitalet, Barcelona – Spain
Museu de Montserrat
Barcelona – Spain
Fundació Vila Casas
Barcelona – Spain *

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, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona – Spain * Fons d'Art de la

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, Barcelona – Spain * Museu de Ceràmicas, Manises – Spain * Artecovi, Fundación, Madrid – Spain * Musée de Chateauroux, France * Musée municipal de Bourg-en-Bresse, France * Musée d’Art et Histoire de Rochefort, Rochefort – France * Grand Théâtre (Angers), France * Centre d'art sacré contemporain de Lille, France

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, Paris * Denys Chevalier, Paris, Aujourd'hui, n° 26 * Alberto del Castillo,

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, mars 1957 * Jorge del Castillo, Barcelona, Revista Fotogramas, n° 430 * Joan Fuster, "Peintura de Jiménez-Balaguer", Valencia * José Maria de Martin, "La Jirafa", abril 1957 * Àngel Marsà, Correo catalán, febrero 1957 * Rafael Manzano, "La peinture pathétique de Jiménez-Balaguer" La Revista, n° 254, 1956 * Manuel Sánchez-Camargo, Palma de Mallorca, 1956 * Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, La Jirafa, Barcelona, Madrid 1956 * José de Castro Arines, "La pintura de Jiménez-Balaguer", Informaciones, Madrid 1956 * Juan Eduardo Cirlot, "Jiménez-Balaguer", monografía, Barcelona 1956 * Manuel Sánchez-Camargo, Revista, 1956, Manuel ARCE, "La peinture de Jiménez Balaguer", Alerta, Santander 1955 * Sebastià Gasch/Josep Maria de Sucre i de Grau, Barcelona * Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, " Message du peintre ", Revista, febrero-marzo 1955 * Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera, " Création et Communication" Santander 1955 * Español Vinas, "Jiménez-Balaguer et sa peinture", Barcelona, Imagenez y el Arte * Sebastià Gasch, "Avec Jiménez-Balaguer", Destino, Barcelona 1954 * Àngel Marsà, "Quinze minutes devant les tableaux de Jiménez-Balaguer"

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