Jorge R. Pombo
Jorge R. Pombo is a self-taught painter born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1973.
At the age of 24, in 1998, he moved to Paris instinctively attracted by the art and history of this city. In 1999, back again in Barcelona, he began a series of stays in different places of cultural contrast starting with the Arctic, especially Greenland and Siberia, initially attracted by the frozen landscape and extreme weather. Later he will do the same in other landscapes such as Tibet or India.
Always moved by a natural anthropological curiosity, in 2010 he moves to New York, seduced by its chaotic energy. He will reside for almost five years and will deepen in the study of abstract expressionist painters and, above all, the statements of The Balck Mountain College. In 2015 he changed residence again to Reggio Emilia, where he currently works.
The key to understanding his artistic proposal is the concept of «struggle of opposites». Figuration against abstraction, narrative image against process of abstract nature, image against words, the excellence of the icons of the history of European painting against the a non message picture… that leads him to use instruments such as white painting with a roller, typical of the wall painters, that is, those who paint without concepts or ideas, emptying the content of the images. His positioning is a tribute and iconoclasm to painting itself at the same time.
He exhibits regularly in galleries in Spain, Italy, China, France, Germany and the United States. He has also exhibited his work in institutions such as the Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne), the Grande Museo del Duomo (Milano), La Scuola Grande di San Rocco (Venice), Can Framis (Barcelona) and the 59th Venice Biennale.
