TAIPEI DANGDAI
Jordi Ribes
12 - 14 May, 2023

Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei (Taiwan). General view of the booth. Solo show: “The Animated Forest” by Jordi Ribes. 

Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei (Taiwan). General view of the booth. Solo show: “The Animated Forest” by Jordi Ribes. 

Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei (Taiwan). General view of the booth. Solo show: “The Animated Forest” by Jordi Ribes. 

Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei (Taiwan). General view of the booth. Solo show: “The Animated Forest” by Jordi Ribes. 

Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei (Taiwan). General view of the booth. Solo show: “The Animated Forest” by Jordi Ribes. 

JORDI RIBES

The animated forest 1, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

The animated forest 3, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

The animated forest 2, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

The game of swords (7), 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

The game of swords (8), 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

(Detail) The animated forest 2, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

(Detail) The animated forest 1, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

(Detail) The animated forest 2, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

JORDI RIBES

(Detail) The animated forest 3, 2023

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

THE ANIMATED FOREST

L21 Gallery is participating in the fourth edition of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas with a solo presentation by the Spanish artist Jordi Ribes (b.1972, Barcelona). Ribes’ work is characterized for blurring the boundaries between digital and pictorial expression. His unconventional use of oil paint gives to his works a polish and indistinct effect, combined with an electric and artificial color palette.

 

In recent works, he paints landscapes where his mysterious characters hide among the trees of an intense-coloured forest. By doing so, he creates narratives of a fantasy world, giving rise to a game of contrasts between the naïve and the perverse, the familiar and the unknown, the real and the fictitious. For his project in the Edge sector, titled “The Animated Forest”, Ribes has created a new body of work in which one can admire the imaginary world in his paintings, where his faceless solitary figures set off bravely on a scary adventure.

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