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