JORDI DÍEZ

(b. 1971, Madrid, Spain)

Madrid-based artist who began his work in 1991, having to date held over twenty solo exhibitions and a hundred collective ones. Ikella combines in his work his passion for geography and his love for painting. Taking the aerial perspective of his hometown as a reference to pay homage to the painters he admires, he blends the visual, chromatic, and textural elements of the last piece the artist developed in his lifetime with this aerial perspective, creating a composition that treads the line between appropriation and formal innovation. His work is a constant pictorial evolution transformed into a tribute to his great influences in the art world, starting with Impressionists like Manet, Monet, Cézanne, moving through Van Gogh, and culminating in Mondrian and successors. His work is represented in collections both public and private in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. He has received a dozen awards since the year 2000.