his 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 wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
his 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 wood (Prices excl. VAT)
Painting from Jordi Artigas 2025
One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate
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