Luis Gordillo studied Law at the University of Seville, and in 1955, he began his training in Fine Arts at the School of Santa Isabel de Hungry in the same city. Later, he traveled to Paris where he met the informalist avant-garde, a key trend in his evolution as an artist.
While his first stay in Paris is marked by the inspiration and influence he will receive from artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Wols or Jean Fautreier, it will be during the second stay when he will begin to develop an automated technique, which we can observe in works such as the series Dibujos telefónicos. During this stage, he will be influenced by artists of figurative style like Francis Bacon or Pop Art like Andy Warhol. In the seventies, he made a series of exhibitions where we can appreciate the passage from Informalism to figuration with influences of Pop Art, as we can see in the work Cabezas Rosas (1977). During the eighties, he works more and more in series, such as 5X5 c, d y e (1981), where he makes several small format paintings that form a set, giving more and more space to the pictorial surface.
In 2010, the Fundació Suñol dedicated to him a monographic exhibition called “Untitled (provisional)”, which showed the artist’s creative process.
List of artworks
Piscina azul , 1971
Suicida , 1974
El alcohólico , 1974
El alcohólico , 1974
Cabeza macho , 1973
Don Quijote and his father A , 1975
Don Quijote and his father B , 1975
Don Quijote and his father B , 1975
Adan y Eva , 1973
Dos cabezas , 1963
Niño pájaro , 1970
Niño pájaro , 1970
Sense títol , 1973
El fabricante de reflejos , 1972
Seis personajes , 1977
Seis personajes , 1977
Cabezas rosas , 1977
Situación meándrica 3 , 1986
La piscina del Espíritu Santo , 1987
La piscina del Espíritu Santo , 1987
Melchor dúplex , 1974
5x5 C, D y E , 1981
Gruyère , 1983
Gruyère , 1983
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Sense títol , 1977
Sense títol , 2020
Piscina azul , 1971
Cabeza macho , 1973
Adan y Eva , 1973
Sense títol , 1973
Cabezas rosas , 1977
Melchor dúplex , 1974
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Sense títol , 1977
Suicida , 1974
Don Quijote and his father A , 1975
Dos cabezas , 1963
El fabricante de reflejos , 1972
Situación meándrica 3 , 1986
5x5 C, D y E , 1981
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Sense títol , 2020
El alcohólico , 1974
Don Quijote and his father B , 1975
Niño pájaro , 1970
Seis personajes , 1977
La piscina del Espíritu Santo , 1987
Gruyère , 1983
Animales salvajes, animales domésticos , 1973-2009
Estudios postméandricos , 1987
Untitled (provisional)
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The Schizos of Madrid. Madrid's Figurative Movement in the 1970s
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FACE(S)
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