JORDI DALMAU (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Barcelona, 1957) and LIDIA GÓRRIZ (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Barcelona, 1957 and 1961).
"Paisaje de signos" (Landscape of signs), 1993.
Mixed media on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 162 x 130 cm.
Jordi Dalmau and Lidia Górriz, born in Santa Coloma in 1957 and 1961 respectively, are doctors in Fine Arts and multidisciplinary artists. They were neighbours in the same street, a neighbourhood that gave rise to this unusual couple dedicated to the creation of projects on the critique of the image and representation. Provocation, reflection, interrogation and collision of the codes of the art world itself and its parallels with media society generate their visual discourse. They work as a team forming a creative tandem; their artistic personality is characterised by a constant process of open research, where concepts and contents take on a fundamental character. Their acid and deeply critical vision coexists under an appearance of fictitious normality. Committed work and ethical radicalism are shown as the basis of the conflict between the discourses of art and its fissures. We could say that the provocation between superimpositions and interrogations of codes, the irony and criticism of the art world itself or its parallels with media society, as well as the journalistic tone of recent or past history, generate part of the discourse, giving it meanings.