Jordi
Artigas
Jordi Artigas, born in 1963, is a Spanish artist renowned for his innovative use of natural and earthy pigments. His artistic journey reflects a profound evolution, culminating in a series of striking abstract works that showcase his creative maturity. Artigas employs diverse materials such as coffee, dyes, acrylic pigments, and oil, imparting a powerful, almost sculptural quality to his pieces. His paintings serve as internal reflections, blending conceptual and expressionist elements with dynamic brushstrokes, textures, symbols, and intentional grooves.
At Matiz Gallery in Barcelona, Artigas's works are featured in exhibitions like "Contrastes," where he explores the balance between spontaneity, texture, color, and contrast. His canvases become platforms for intentional contrasts, engaging in a dialogue between order and spontaneity. Artigas's meticulous process involves using a blend of coffee, glue, and water on canvases, resulting in unique backgrounds that invite viewers to interpret the interplay of contrasts.
Artigas's commitment to discovering new pigments and materials has led to a distinctive artistic style that resonates with audiences worldwide. His works are held in private collections across various continents, reflecting his global appeal. Through his art, Artigas continues to illuminate the path to beauty, balance, and subtle harmony, encouraging contemplation and introspection.
ARTWORKS
This series is part of our Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas is a Spanish abstract artist. In this painting, he combines calligraphic, thick black and red gestures on a white canvas. Between these two layers, a central field of coffee-made strokes draws the composition inward, focusing the energy toward the centre.
The painting is finally brought together through elements of symbolic abstraction, such as the X and directional arrows. Jordi refers to this series as Neutral because, although his overall colour palette is wide, here it becomes more sober and “natural.” The large scale of the work (135 × 167 cm) gives the composition authority and weight.
Artigas’s painting also places strong emphasis on architectural balance and material process, which is why coffee plays a central role in his practice.
The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work echoes BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is built gradually through lived processes rather than through instant visual statements.
135 × 167 cm
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on canvas. Wood frame (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2026
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This series is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. In this painting, Jordi Artigas focuses on balancing thick black and red gestural strokes with a field of translucent coffee washes layered over a white canvas. Rather than functioning as colour alone, the coffee acts as a staining and binding material, introducing texture, depth, and a sense of time into the composition.
Artigas’s painting enters into dialogue with Spanish Informalism, particularly the legacy of Antoni Tàpies and Antonio Saura, while also resonating with modernist symbolic abstraction as seen in artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró. These references emerge not as quotation, but through Artigas’s use of sign, gesture, and compositional rhythm.
The composition is ultimately brought together through symbolic elements — a flax-yellow cross and dark brown-black directional arrows — which anchor the movement of the painting and reinforce its internal structure. Through this interplay of gesture, material, and symbol, the work achieves a strong sense of architectural balance and visual coherence.
The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work closely aligns with BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is constructed gradually through lived processes, accumulated traces, and spatial reading, rather than through immediate or illustrative visual statements. In this sense, the painting functions as a material record of balance and negotiation — principles that also guide BASPcr’s approach to cultural activation within the neighborhood.
135 X 167 cm
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on canvas, wood frame(Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2026
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. In Series Neutral M 102, Jordi Artigas crowns the canvas with a rounded red gesture, balanced against a segmented black stroke that anchors the upper structure of the composition. These dominant forms establish the primary rhythm and visual tension of the work.
Working on a white canvas, Artigas layers coffee and earthy pigments as an initial staining process rather than as pure colour. This first material layer ties together the main gestures with less intense background strokes, subtly centring the composition and allowing the forms to settle into a coherent whole. The use of coffee introduces depth, translucency, and time, reinforcing the physical process behind the painting.
The composition is completed through symbolic arrow-like marks, which function as an imaginary and fragile guide, tracing movement and direction across the surface. Rather than dictating a single reading, these signs suggest a current or flow through which the materials and gestures interact.
The use of gesture as structure and the circulation of marks across the surface place Artigas’s work in dialogue with artists such as Mark Tobey, where painting operates as a field of movement, and Cy Twombly, whose signs function as fragile guides rather than fixed symbols. The authority of the black strokes also recalls Pierre Soulages’s understanding of gesture as a constructive, architectural element, while the overall restraint of the composition resonates with the quieter tradition of abstraction found in Joan Hernández Pijuan.
The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work closely aligns with BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is built gradually through lived processes, accumulated traces, and spatial reading, rather than through immediate or illustrative visual statements.
86 X 105 cm
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on canvas, wood frame (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2026
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting is part of our next Spring exhibition 2026. Jordi Artigas structured this composition around two balanced, rounded gestures — a red stroke and an overlapping black stroke — whose intensity places them firmly in the foreground of the painting. Their curved movement establishes the primary rhythm and visual weight of the composition.
Behind them, additional strokes operate on a secondary plane: a black gesture that partially dissolves into the background, merging with layers of coffee and brown pigments, and a smaller red stroke which, despite its chromatic intensity, recedes spatially due to its scale. This controlled play between foreground and background creates depth without relying on illusionistic space.
The painting is developed on a white-painted canvas, allowing the material layers to remain legible and distinct. The composition is finally unified through symbolic arrow-like marks, which introduce direction, movement, and a sense of internal navigation across the surface.
Artigas’s use of gesture as sign and his restrained symbolic vocabulary places his work in dialogue with Antoni Tàpies and Antonio Saura, while his emphasis on balance, rhythm, and reduction also resonates with modern symbolic abstraction, particularly artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró. These references emerge not as citation, but as shared concerns with sign, structure, and compositional clarity.
The emphasis on material process and time-based transformation in Artigas’s work closely aligns with BASPcr’s methodology, where cultural meaning is built gradually through lived processes, accumulated traces, and spatial reading, rather than through instant or illustrative visual statements.
86 X 105 cm
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on canvas, wood frame (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2026
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Jordi Artigas's 'CONTRASTES' on a thick light brown canvas, featuring a dynamic black stroke spiraling from the upper left to the center, complemented by thin lines and crosses in red, yellow, and orange, against a background of thick but translucent strokes.
151 X 119 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting is part of the CONTRASTES exhibition at Matiz Gallery in Barcelona, running from December 2023 to January 2024. It is a well-balanced composition, featuring bold, precise black strokes alongside dynamic, textured red acrylic strokes. Jordi Artigas incorporates his signature elements, such as arrows and fine drawn lines, all set against a textured coffee background.
86 X 105 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting, created in 2023 and framed in black wood, presents a more harmonious relationship between the main elements. The black and red strokes share the same width, as do the coffee and lighter black background, all set against a white canvas. Signature elements, such as a red cross, graffiti-style marks, and calligraphic black strokes on the left, are also present.
130 x 164 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2023
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
A captivating abstract piece featuring a round black stroke resembling a "C" over a dark red scribble on a coffee-toned background. Works well as a diptych with Chromatic Calligraphy #3.
Chromatic Calligraphy #3 features a round black C-shaped stroke layered with dark red accidental stroke in a coffee background. Symbolic shapes like Xs and arrows add depth to this expressive piece, which pairs well with Chromatic Calligraphy #2.
32 X 32 cm (x2)
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting is part of the CONTRASTES exhibition at Matiz Gallery in Barcelona, running from December 2023 to January 2024. Jordi Artigas creates a bold coffee background with a prominent black "Q," showcasing his signature elements, such as strong scribble-like lines and arrows. The composition emphasizes the interplay of textures and colors, reflecting his distinct artistic identity.
119 x 151 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2023/24
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This 2-meter-wide composition by Jordi Artigas reveals the artist's dynamic and playful side. On a white canvas background, he uses a textured blend of coffee and acrylics to create layers, with a smaller grayish-blue section on the left. These serve as backgrounds for a black inverted triangle and two horizontally displayed strokes: one black, intermittent stroke and a more curved red stroke on the right. As in his other works, signature elements such as the cross and arrows are present, adding depth and identity to the composition.
200 X 120 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Chromatic Calligraphy #4 presents a gray fossil, coffee-textured square on a white background. A black shape frames the edges, accented by small yellow and bright orange-red acrylic touches, creating a dynamic, textured composition.
32 X 32 cm
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
This painting is part of the CONTRASTES exhibition at Matiz Gallery in Barcelona, running from December 2023 to January 2024. Jordi Artigas creates a bold coffee background with a prominent black "Q," showcasing his signature elements, such as strong scribble-like lines and arrows. The composition emphasizes the interplay of textures and colors, reflecting his distinct artistic identity.
119 x 151 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
Jordi centers this composition around one of his signature elements, the cross. He uses a bold, thick red stroke as the focal point, complemented by smaller, calligraphic black strokes at the bottom. The piece is set against a white canvas, with most of the background filled with coffee textures. The interplay of textures differentiates the various structures within the composition.
86 X 105 cm
Acrylic on canvas (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2024
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
An abstract composition featuring a free-formed dark capri blue X on a reddish and orange background. Accents of bright red acrylic and light yellow touches add dynamic contrast, framed with a teal green outline.
32 X 32 cm
Coffee, inks, acrylic pigments and oil on wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2025