JORDI ALVAREZ ART
The bittersweet joy of self-discovery
JORDI ALVAREZ
Contemporary Artist
THE MOMENT
I am an artist whose work explores the tension between stability and chaos, reflecting a deeply personal element made of an ironic combination of self-destruction, freedom, and the pursuit of infinite possibility. I create work utilising materials that are often forgotten about or simply wasted, bringing life to the lifeless.
My work explores the tension between stability and chaos. A deeply personal landscape shaped by self-reinvention, freedom, and the pursuit of infinite possibility. I am drawn to materials that have been discarded or forgotten, giving life back to what has been overlooked. In doing so, I mirror something within myself: the transformation of what feels fractured into something alive.
Being self-taught has granted me the freedom to push beyond what's considered the 'right way to do something' if there is such a thing - I paint instinctively and the journey takes me where I am meant to be. Over time, I’ve learned that true art is not about control. It is about surrender. It is about allowing the work to reveal itself. Each completed painting feels like a chain broken - necessary, liberating, and making space for what comes next.
Creating compels me to see beauty everywhere, even as it forces me to confront my own limitations. Yet those limits never restrain me; they challenge me to dissolve the boundary between hand and mind. Art teaches me to tell a story regardless of how it ends; to release the need for approval and trust the quiet truth of self-expression.
Life is not only lived in its bold chapters, but in its footnotes.. in subtle highs and quiet lows. There is meaning in both. My style and subjects are in constant flux. I can be moved by countless emotions in a single day, and often they all find their way onto one canvas. I work with pencil, charcoal, ink, coffee, wine, watercolour, oils, industrial paint, and the forgotten materials of everyday life — whatever is near, whatever carries history.
WHAT REMAINS IN THE SURFACE
FALLS & COMPOSITIONS
WHAT REMAINS IN THE SURFACE
Part of my practice explores the space between structure and dissolution - where forms emerge, fragment, and attempt to hold.
Working primarily with layered paint, line, and reclaimed materials, I construct compositions that behave less like images and more like systems. Lines act as signals or pathways, while blocks of color and texture suggest partial structures, bodies, architectures, or moments of containment that never fully resolve.
I am interested in the instability of communication: what is felt but not expressed, what is said but not received. Many works exist as suspended conversations - interrupted, misaligned, or incomplete. This tension between connection and disconnection runs throughout the work.
The body appears not as a fixed figure, but as a shifting field. Something sensed rather than depicted. Through layering, erasure, and gesture, I allow forms to surface and recede, balancing control with accident, intention with disruption.
Each piece is a negotiation: between clarity and ambiguity, weight and air, presence and absence. What remains is a trace of something trying to take shape - held, briefly, before it changes again.
''There is so much to take in when we look at one another’s bodies and at the world around us. The unreliable beauty of shapes, shifting with the passage of time, with light changing as the world turns, continues to surprise me. There is so much substance, chaos and abundance.
To be alive is to witness the constant evolution and revolution of our cells: our bodies forming, changing, ageing and becoming. To inhabit this transformation while remaining awake to it, to be truly living, is perhaps our greatest challenge and our greatest privilege. ''
Foreign Field
Mixed media on canvas 120x50cm
The Current of Oil
Mixed media 200x100cm
Bubbles
Mixed media on canvas 150x100cm
Artist statement
Born in Italy and shaped by years of travel across Miami, New York, Australia, the UK, South America and Asia, I am a self-taught artist whose practice is rooted in movement, memory and a desire to reconnect with instinctive self-expression.
My works incorporate materials gathered along the way, from fragments of rice paper sourced in China’s Yunnan region to handmade inks created by combining oils with natural elements. These materials carry traces of place, becoming part of an evolving visual language shaped as much by experience as by intention.
Painting began privately, as a form of escape rather than a profession. After a decade working in the luxury industry, increasingly consumed by sales targets, bonuses and the relentless mechanics of performance, I began to feel more like an algorithm than a person. Stepping away became an act of reclamation: a decision to follow creative instinct and devote himself fully to painting.
Without formal art training, this transition has carried its share of impostor syndrome. Yet this absence of traditional schooling has also allowed for a practice guided by curiosity, experimentation and intuition, where painting becomes a way of returning to the self.
