Jorge Queiroz is a Portuguese painter and draftsman. His practice, which straddles the domains of painting and drawing, often proceeds in bodies of work, whose thematic concerns are centered in questions of art itself such as possible ways of interconnecting elements in the pictorial space; at heart, they grapple with coincidence and the relation between order and disorder. Queiroz is a master of the unconstrained gaze. What propels him is a visuality that projects the union of man and nature and seeks to limn its pictorial equivalent. Steering a path between abstraction and concretion, he devises modes of representation that gesture toward reality as it presents itself to the eye while also being thoroughly ingrained in the reality of color. Queiroz simulates interior and exterior spaces. His visions revolve around mental and figurative-formative landscapes. We observe him savoring the greatest liberty a painter can achieve: the freedom to abandon himself entirely to the present moment. Surfing the ground in colors, making the paint gurgle and undulate, escaping, in the creative process, one island for the next, he forges expressions of a conquest in uncharted terrain. Queiroz summons images from a surging stream of ideas. He swims through time and space, treasuring up a store of signifiers that symbolizes the attainability of the unattainable—in pictures whose compelling force is virtually impossible to resist. Read More
Queiroz is represented in several particular and institutional art collections like MoMA; Centre Georges Pompidou; MAAT/EDP Foundation Collection; SFMOMA (Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco); Serralves Foundation; Calouste Gulbenkian Collection; FRAC (Fonds National D’Art Contemporain); FLAD; Caixa-Geral de Depósitos Collection; Deutsche Bank; PLMJ Foundation; Carmona e Costa Foundation; Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection – CACE; Carré d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain; CaixaFórum; Banco Privado Português; Portugal Telecom; La Banque Postale; Ilídio Pinho Foundation; o FRAC Haute-Normandie; Helga de Alvear Foundation; Oberrauch-Zitt; Per Amor a l’Art; Daniel et Florence Guerlain Collection; Fundación Mario Losantos del Campo, Studiolo Collection - Candela A. Soldevilla, among others.
