Jorge Barbi

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Jorge Barbi Alonso (* 1950 in A Guarda , Province of Pontevedra , Spain ) is a Spanish artist who comes from the north-west Spanish region of Galicia .

Life

Barbi still lives and works today (2015) in his hometown on the Atlantic . His works cannot easily be classified into the different style groups of the Spanish artists of the last decades. In his works he deals, among other things, with the nature of his homeland and the sometimes destructive human influence on it. He tries to capture the transience of time and life in the objects and installations. his depictions show the connections between human existence and nature in a time of rapid change. It is also expressed through the use of the objet trouvé and the assemblage .

Since 1983 his works have been shown in both solo and group shows. In the art world, his works are counted among other things as Land Art or the minimalism movement and compared with those of the Americans Michael Heizer or Walter De Maria .

Works and exhibition locations

  • 1991: Cinco sentidos .
  • 1992: Installation as part of the Arte Público program of the Government of the Huesca Province in Roda de Isábena in Aragón .
  • 1993: Pasto de vacas natural meadow in the Picos de Europa in the Pyrenees .
  • 1994 - today (not yet completed): A donde tú me lleves , between A Guarda and Cape Silleiro in the province of Pontevedra.
  • 1995: Nordesía in the Centro Conde Duque in Madrid and then in the Casa de Parra in Santiago de Compostela .
  • 1997: Casa de juegos , Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanéo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela.
  • 2014: Intervención en el cementerio de Bonaval , as part of the exhibition On the Road in the cemetery of the Convento Santo Domingo de Bonaval in Santiago de Compostela.

literature

  • El final aquí , Xunta de Galicia, Centro galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The colors of life and death in FAZ from September 11, 2014, page R5
personal data
SURNAME Barbi, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbi Alonso, Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH A Guarda , Pontevedra Province , Galicia , Spain