Flores / Flowers art by Galindo and Almodovar

A monumental, bold painting of flowers in a glass jar appears in Matha’s apartment in The Room Next Door.

The painting is from a series of works called Flores by Jorge Galindo created in collaboration with internationally-acclaimed and award-winning filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar. 

Over the past thirty years, Jorge Galindo has made gestural and expressionistic paintings which often synthesise elements of collage. Using a range of materials, his lush and colourful surfaces are executed in an energetic, sometimes chaotic style. In his new flower paintings, Galindo depicts the classic subject of the still life on a monumental scale. Painted onto canvases with a patchwork quality, Galindo’s bright and energetic paint handling renders his subject in a manner that borders on abstraction.

Galindo and Almodóvar worked together over a period of a year to create the Flores de periferia works. Galindo invited Almodóvar to collaborate after seeing his exhibition of small format still life photographs of “peripheral” flowers (suicide flowers that grow within train tracks and are destined to be crushed) in vases. Following in the tradition of artists such as Giorgio Morandi and Francisco de Zurbarán, who were both known for painting still lives of commonplace objects such as vases, bottles, bowls, fruit and flowers, Galindo proposed to enlarge Almodóvar’s photos and use them as the ground for a series of paintings. In realizing the Flores de periferia works, Galindo and Almodóvar worked simultaneously, applying paint to the photographic base images with brushes, their hands, arms and feet, abstracting the original photographic works into boldly colourful and gestural paintings.

This particular work and all other works from this series are now sold. There are also no prints available.

If you’re interested in other works by the artist Jorge Galindo, there are a select few original artworks available through Film and Furniture – please contact us for information.