"La pintura entre extremos", Galería Cayón, 2021
Characterized by a unique combination of figurative interpretations, and evocative colors abstractions, Juan Giralt´s works embody a new genre of new figuration painting that recalls Spanish history and customs subjects while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, acid compositions.
Giralt was initially self-taught under the influence of the Informalism that predominated the 1950s. He attended as free student at the Fine Art College in London, and later he lived successively in Paris and Amsterdam, where he came into contact with the CoBra Group.
"La pintura entre extremos", Galería Cayón, 2021
Early on, his work began to oscillate between the abstraction and the figuration, with a visible desire of integrating both that crystallised in his maturity.
During his first stage Juan Giralt evolves from a Post-CoBra Expresionism to a New Figuration with pop echoes. It is this body of work what turned him into a reference point of New Figuration in Madrid.
In the 1980s, Giralt begins to shape a more personal pictorial language, and after living in New York, he starts to explore new ways of figurative interpretation that alternates with abstraction. In the years that followed, until his death in 2007, he would gradually incorporate abstraction, but without ever relinquishing figurative elements that were present in the constant use of collage and the painted word.
His work can be seen in multiple spanish and international collections, as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Deutsche Bank o Muba, San Paolo.
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