Jordi Colomer (born 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 was born in 1962 in

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. He 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 Valère Novarina, Joan Brossa,

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. 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,

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, 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

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, ''A Crime'' (2005), ''No Future'' (2006), and ''En la Pampa'' (2008), a five-screen installation filmed at the

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. In 2008 the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris hosted a retrospective exhibition of his work. He is represented in numerous museums and collections:

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, Madrid,

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, Paris,

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, Vienna, MACBA, Barcelona. Colomer represented Spain at 57th

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, 2017. ** He has participated in two editions of Manifesta, the European nomadic biennial: Manifesta X, St. Petersburg (Russia), curated by Kasper König, and Manifesta XII, Palermo (Sicily). The MACBA presented in 2024 a major retrospective of his work, exhibition for which he received the City of Barcelona visual arts award. His work is represented by Galerie Michel Rein (Paris-Brussels), Albarrán-Bourdais (Madrid).

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

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The Guardian
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