Luis Gordillo

Luis Gordillo - Olympic Centennial

Técnica: Serigraphy

Biografía del Artista: Luis Gordillo (Seville, Spain, 1934), a teacher of several generations of abstract artists, awakened and cultivated his passion for art at a very early age. Over the course of more than six decades he navigated between various artistic currents, whose particular interpretation and perpetual renewal have made him one of the main plastic references in Spain, both in the avant-garde of the last century and today. Thus we can affirm that this Gordillo style is more a result of his own career, of evolutions and ruptures, than of the individual sources from which he has drawn over the years. We see it in the tendency to unfold an image, close to the kaleidoscopic vision, which has its bases in his geometric tendencies. Among his numerous exhibitions in public spaces, the following anthological exhibitions stand out: MACBA (Barcelona, ​​1999), Museum Folkwang (Essen, 2000), IVAM (Valencia, 1993), Meadows Museum (Dallas, 1994), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2007), Kunst Museum (Bonn, 2008), CAAC (Seville, 2016), Koldo Michelena (San Sebastian, 2017). He has also been awarded a number of prizes and mentions, including the National Prize for Plastic Arts (1981), the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1996), Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de France (2007) and the Velazquez Prize for Plastic Arts (2007). Luis Gordillo's work can be found in many public and private collections, including those of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, ​​the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Artium in Vitoria, the La Caixa Foundation, the Fundacio´ Sun~ol in Barcelona, ​​the AENA Foundation, the Pilar Citoler Collection, the Juan March Foundation, and the Helga de Alvear Foundation.