Jorge Rando

Jorge Rando

Jorge Rando in his workshop
Born (1941-06-23) 23 June 1941
Málaga, Barrio de la Victoria
Nationality Spanish
Known for Painting, sculpting and drawing

Jorge Rando (born 23 June 1941) is a Spanish painter and sculptor, considered one of the most recognised artist of the Neo-expressionist art movement.[1] A world class study the key global figures of Expressionism and Neoexpressionism, from the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg,[2] identified Rando as one of the best examples of neo-expressionism in the world. The expert study selected only Rando and Miguel Barceló as the only two representatives of this artistic movement in Spain.[3] Therefore, in recognition to Rando's fruitful artistic career, the first Expressionist Museum in Spain[4] bears his name Museum Jorge Rando.[5] Currently, the painter lives and works between Malaga, Spain and Hamburg, Germany; countries where his artistic legacy has been widely recognized. The Museum Jorge Rando was inaugurated in Malaga,Spain in 2014[6] the city is the painter´s hometown, which in recent years has become a new cultural star in Europe,[7] due to its growing number of outstanding contemporary art museums.[8] In Germany, the artist second home, his art work has also been recognised, since the prestigious Ernst Barlach Museum at Ratzeburg, granted a permanent exhibition room to Rando oeuvres, been the first Spanish living painter to receive such honour.[9]

Biography

There is no message I can give.

Jorge Rando about the aim of art.[10]

Everything is moved by love; that is why creation without love is just colour without a soul.

Jorge Rando about artistic Creation.[11]

Jorge Rando was born in Málaga, Spain, In the 1960s, he moved to Germany in order to pursuit his philosophical studies, and there he met his wife Margit. He settled in Cologne by mere chance, where he became a key actor on the economic and cultural rebirth of this city after the Second World War. German culture and philosophy has been crucial for Rando's personal and artistic development.[12] Since then, he has produced his art work in Spain and Germany, expanding the expressionist art movement in both cultures. Thus his artwork represents a cultural bridge that links the deep philosophical concepts of the German school of though, with the powerful tradition of the Spanish artistic sensibility.The synergy between his philosophical concepts and his energetic painting converge in a lengauage of great expressive force, that uses vigorous and colorful brushes.[13] Nowadays, Jorge Rando lives and works in both cities: Málaga and Hamburg.

According to his recently published Neo Expressionist Manifesto for the XXI century, entitled "Rando's Contemporary Art Testament,"[14] Rando is committed to bring back the sense of spirituality in art, and promote expressionism, as an art movement capable of expressing the deepest inner human emotions that connect human kind. In a dehumanized world, Rando's paintings and sculptures are profoundly spiritual and humanistic, and offer to the espectador a massage of hope for humanity, where love is the force that moves the world.

Rando uses art, and the expressionist style in particular; as a cultural bridge for human understanding and empathy in a dehumanized and indifferent world. Neo-expressionism becomes a powerful tool that looks at the inner emotions of the artist and the spectator and translates them in powerful messages, that move the hearts and souls of people, regardless of their religion, sex, race, creed or believe. His goal is to build bridges of understanding and compassion. For Rando love is the underlining force that moves the universe.[15]

Style

Neo-expressionism is an art movement that uses strong chromatics, simplicity in figures, and the absence of features to express feelings, and their followers pursue the expressions of emotions through art, with disregard to beauty or aesthetic.[16] Although expressionists artist portray recognizable objects in an abstract manner, they do it in a rough and violently emotional way, often using vivid colors.[17] Expressionist artist main objective in not to paint what they see, but what they feel. To many art critics and art historians, Rando is a world reference of neo-expressionism,[18] Jorge Rando's paintings are characterized by the exasperated distortion of the shape, the sensitivity in the use of color, and the powerful presence of the artist gestures and stroke.[19] For Example to Art historian, Enrique Castaños, Art History professor at the University of Malaga, Spain: Rando is known for his powerful brushstroke and his expressive use of colors, which transmit powerful emotions to the spectator, representing a clear example of the neo-expressionist movement.[20]

The cycles: painting motives

Rando's work is organized by common motives called "cycles," [21] along the years, the artist has portrayed these common themes in his paintings and sculptures, returning to them as the years go by. As expressionist artist did at the beginning of the XX century, prostitutes and beggars are common motives in Rando's paintings, so are Mother Nature and animals.[22] The cycles are very wide, however a common theme in Rando's vast artistic catalogue is suffering[23] and love as the means for redemption.[24]

The Cycles include paintings and sculptures on: Afrika, (figurative and abstract images on Africa's war and hunger exile);[25] Passion ( a collection of religious paintings on the crucifixion of Christ);[26] Maternaties (paintings and sculptures of mothers with their siblings);[27] Prostitution (images of distorted female figures);[28] Pintarradas-Sketchings (floral motives and animals);[29] Käthe Kollwitz (a tribute to one of the great painters of Expressionism, which artwork and life is a testament to love and sacrifice),[30] Children (figures of children walking or playing, where the artist seeks to capture unequivocal body movements of children);[31] Cycling (abstract images of cyclers standing up or in motion); Landscapes and Vertical Horizons (a collection of paintings that combine a powerful use of colours, shapes and brush strokes that make the spectator to connect emotionally with nature and a spirituality);[32] Portraits and Figures ( Portraits and other motives); Card Players (figurative images of people playing cards).[33]

The common motives portrayed in Rando's paintings, evoked a strong humanistic vision, a profound sensibility for the suffering of others, spirituality as well as deep love for everything alive in the universe. These works of art seek to raise the spectators human and social consciousness, and sometimes call on them to take action. Several art critics and historians have written about Rando's cycles. For example, Jiménez wrote: Rando's art works shake our consciousness with these socially concerned paintings; inducing the spectator the spectators to look to their inner self and to reflect in their own emotions.[34]

On the cycles Carmen Pallarés wrote: " Afrika is an exhibition that shows the strength and the purity of Jorge Rando's New Expressionism, and whose creation, it is inseparable to the artist philosophical and humanist principles." Adding(...) "from the unconcealed humanism of his stroke in Afrika, where the drawing manifest itself and the painter finds "the means for free expression, spontaneity and liberation from all ties; (...) to the extremely sensitive gaze to Prostitution, shaped by his energetic brushstrokes and its structured compositions. In landscapes in Space and Vertical Horizons, the "observer of the painting," witness the "colors born from earth like roots.";... Through his philosophical conceptualism of his painting and his incessant investigation of the language of colour, the artist transport us from his own human facet to pure nature.[35]

On the 23rd Volume of Malaga Art History Encyclopedia, art historian Enrique Castaños stated that Rando's (art work) is clearly distinguible from his fellow contemporary artist by the use of thematically oriented series known as "cycles." Castaños wrote "throughout his pictorial series ( Prostitution, Afrika, The Passion, Kathe Kolwitz, Maternities, etc.) it is clear Rando's fundamental concern ia to unravel the inside of the human soul through color, the organic form, its distortion and the free traces of his brush stroke."[36]

Ricardo Barnatán in Pintarradas wrote: "Rando's figurative landscapes, those quick and furious sketches, speaks of what takes place inside us not what we see outside. The brush strokes and the colors just represent the inside of the painter; and if the figures seem recognizable, and they are it is because they work as words in a secret decoded message. A message written from the passion, in the sense of that glorious movement from the soul and the purified suffering as well."[37]

Prizes and Honours

Rando has received several prizes and awards along his fruitful carrier.

In 2017, Rando was invitated to participate in one of the most important events in Germany: "Reformations jubiläums," a 500 years celebration of the Reform movement. The event is taking place in the German City of Emdem, declared European Capital of the Reform ( Reformationsstad Europas). The Exhibition was inaugurated on the 16th of July, under the title: "Ernst Barlach-Jorege Rando, Mistics of Modernity: Expressionism Yesterday and Today." After the celebration the tandem exhibition will travel to Berlin.

In 2016, he received the Ernst Barlach award, in recognition to his life´s work and his commitment to expand new expressionism around the world. Such award is given to outstanding examples worldwide and only very few artist have received it, been Rando the first Spanish painter to do so.[38]

The same year the most popular art magazine in Europe, "ART Magazine," recommended Rando's exhibition "Passion Neur Expressionismus," as one of the 15 best exhibitions in Europe not to miss that year.[39]

In 2015, the City of Málaga awarded Jorge Rando with the prize to the Arts "Estrella Feniké". Additionally, it was awarded the prize "Museum of the Years 2015," by the association of writers Friends of Málaga (Amigos de Málaga).

In 2014, the Jorge Rando Museum was opened, where the artist production will be collected and preserved. Moreover, it represents the headquarters of the homonymous foundation, which aims to study the Expressionism in the broadest sense of the phrase. The museum is located on the premses of the Monastery of "Las Madres Mercedarias" on the popular Molinillo neighbourhood, in Malaga downtown area.

In 2011, Rando was awarded the Perséfoner Media Club Award to the Arts, as best Painter of the year. He designs the statute to be presented to the winners of the Spanish Cinema Festival ( 2011)

In 2010 Rando designed the sculpture for the winners of the SIGNIS Film Circuit.

In 2008, the Writers Association of Málaga gave him the "Best Artist " award.

In 2007 Rando was awarded the Plastic arts Award in Madrid. The Álvaro Mutis Foundation gave him the prize for "the best art book of the year." The United Nations Education and Social Cooperation Organisation in Paris (UNESCO) awarded the Book on Jorge Rando´s art Work entitled "More Light," by Carmen Pallares the prize "Golden Book of the Plastic Arts." Libro de Oro de la Plástica. Unesco (Parish). The Spanish National Library (Madrid) purchased some drawings by the artist for its permanent collection.

In 2006. Rando received the prize from the Antiquaria Foundation for his contributions to Spanish Expressionism. That same year he was also awarded the Contemporary Art prize by "Te Eventsrtulia Ilustrada" in Madrid.

Select bibliography on Rando

Fifteen books have been published about Rando¨s artwork and artistic style, written by a multicultural group of art critics, art historians, writers, poets and journalists.[40] All these authors seem to have a common denominator, Rando's artistic ability to express through his paintings and sculptures, the spirituality of human nature expressed through art. In 2007, the book on Rando's paintings written by art critic, Carmen Pallarés, entitled More Light, won the prestigious Unesco (Organización de las Naciones Unidas, para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura) Art Book of the Year in Paris.[41]

Recent exhibitions

Museum

In 2014, Museum Jorge Rando, in Málaga, was opened.

Sources

References

  1. ↑ Pallarés, Carmen. Dando ¡Más Luz!. Trea Editions, Gijón 2007.
  2. ↑ "Museo de Arte Moderno Salzburgo".
  3. ↑ The wikipedia page on Neo expressionism also includes Peris Carbinell.
  4. ↑ Arte Informado. "Museo Jorge Rando".
  5. ↑ http://www.museojorgerando.org
  6. ↑ Several national and provincial news papers published articles on the inauguration of the Museum Rando. National newspapers as "el mundo"http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2014/05/22/537e3a8eca47418f1d8b456e.html or el país http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2014/05/19/andalucia/1400495983_165361.html Locals like "la opinión de Málaga," http://www.laopiniondemalaga.es/cultura-espectaculos/2014/05/28/museum-jorge-rando-realidad/680580.html or el diario sur http://www.diariosur.es/culturas/201412/16/museo-jorge-rando-muestra-20141216131025.html
  7. ↑ The British news paper, The Guardian portrayed the city of Malaga as a city booming with new internationally recognised museums. See Ashifa Kassan, City of Museums: Malaga bets on culture to draw tourist and talent, The Guardian, London, Friday 27th of March, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/malaga-museums-tourists-arts-culture-spain
  8. ↑ The list of Museums recommended by trip advisor: the foreign outposts of two high-profile museums: the Centre Pompidou Málaga and the Málaga branch of the St Petersburg State Russian Museum, and the Rando Museum ( 92% grade it as excellent), the Contemporary Art Museum and the Carmen Thyssen Museum .https://www.tripadvisor.es/Attraction_Review-g187438-d6685840-Reviews-Museum_Jorge_Rando-Malaga_Costa_del_Sol_Province_of_Malaga_Andalucia.html
  9. ↑ http://www.ernst-barlach.de/jorge-rando.html
  10. ↑ Rando, Jorge. Thoughts and Reflection, translated by Diana Valero. Original title: Pensamientos y Reflexiones. Málaga, Spagna. Fondazione Jorge Rando. ISBN 978-84-616-8964-4, p. 132
  11. ↑ Rando, Jorge. Thoughts and Reflection, translated by Diana Valero. Original title: Pensamientos y Reflexiones. Málaga, Spagna. Fondazione Jorge Rando. ISBN 978-84-616-8964-4, p. 143
  12. ↑ Pallarés, Carmen. Hamburg Notebooks. Madrid. Victor i Fills Art Gallery. ISBN 978-84-613-7714-5. pp. 436–440
  13. ↑ Armando Jimenez, "The Quest for Spirituallity in Rando's Paintings" (Mimeo) in process to be published Madrid, Spain, 2017, p. 2
  14. ↑ See Jorge Rando's Art Manifesto and Proclamation, of "The ContemporaryTestament of the Arts," edited by the Jorge Rando Foundation, 2016.
  15. ↑ Armando Jimenez, "The Quest for Spirituallity in Rando's Paintings" (Mimeo) in process to be published Madrid, Spain, 2017, p. 3
  16. ↑ To learn more see Ian Chilvers,The Concise Oxford Art Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1996.
  17. ↑ See wikipedia on Neo expressionism
  18. ↑ See the various books published by art critics, art historians, historians and journalist on the pictorial language of the artist, on the bibliography attached.
  19. ↑ See this artist style description at Jorge Rando Museum at http://www.museojorgerando.org or www.jorgerando.es
  20. ↑ Castaños, Enrique (2010). La mirada Ascética en la Pintura. Málaga, Spain: Edit. Universidad de Málaga.
  21. ↑ See images at Jorge Rando Museum at http://www.museojorgerando.org or www.jorgerando.es
  22. ↑ See the expressionist paintings of the members of "the Bridge" and "the Blue Ridder,"
  23. ↑ Rando's early work From the end of the 1960s and the 70s, some themes stand out in the cycles, like Prostitution (Prostitución), Maternities (Las maternidades), Misfortunes (Pesadumbres), Animals (Animales), Landscapes (Paisajes), Africa (África), etc.
  24. ↑ Rando wrote in June 2003: "In many of my texts, when I express my thoughts or my feelings about art in general or painting in particular, I talk about love. I used such beautiful word, in all its meaning, all that it covers; since love is also suffering, desire, work; at the end life itself. Everything is moved by love; that is the reason why artistic creativity without love is just color without a soul. See Jorge Rando, Thoughts and Reflections, Rando Foundation, Málaga, 2014
  25. ↑ For comments on the Afrika cycle see Carmen Pallarés, "Rando ¡More Light!." Edited by Trea, Gijón 2007.
  26. ↑ On the religious paintings see Enrique Castaños ed. La Pasión en la Pintura de Rando, Edited by Fundación Unicaja, Málaga 2008 and Rafael Salas, La Teología de la expresión, edites by Fundación Caja Sur, Córdoba 2005.
  27. ↑ See Enrique Castaños, Maternidades, Edited by Fundación Unicaja, Málaga, 2007.
  28. ↑ See Enrique Castaños, Carmen Pilares Y Julia Sáez-Angulo, La Fuerza de la Expresión, Edita Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Málaga 2008.
  29. ↑ See Ricardo Banatán,Pintarradas, Trea Editions, Gijón 2007.
  30. ↑ rCarmen Pallarés, Begegnung Kathe Kollwitz-Jorge Rando, Edite by Jorge Rando Fundation, Málaga, 2014.
  31. ↑ See Enrique Castaños, Carmen Pallarés, Rosa Martinez de Lahidalga, Julia Sáez-angulo y Juan Maldonado in La mirada ascética en la Pintura, edites by the University of Málaga, Málaga 2010.
  32. ↑ See Carmen Pallarés y Rosa Martinez de la Hidalga, Paisajes de Pintura, Editorial Síntesis, Madrid, 2006 and Carmen Pallarés, Hamburg Notebooks, edites by Victor i Filas Art Gallery S. L., Madrid 2010.
  33. ↑ See Carmen Pallarés, Color con Alma, Edited bu GF Fauna, Madrid, 2004.
  34. ↑ Armando Jimenez, "The Quest for Rando's Spirituality," (Mimeo in process to be published) Malaga, 2017, p. 45
  35. ↑ Carmen Pallares," Color con Alma," Edited by GF Fauna, Madrid 2004 and Carmen Pallarés, "Hamburg Notebooks," Edited by Victor i Fills Art Gallery S.L., Madrid 2010.
  36. ↑ Castaños, Enrique (2011). Artes Plásticas del Siglo XX? Ultimas Posiciones de la Plástica Malagueña (first edition ed.). Málaga: Consejería Cultura, Museo Picasso, Universidad de Málaga y FYM-Helcementi Group (Málaga). p. 85. ISBN 978-84-614-9900-7.
  37. ↑ See Ricardo Barnatán, Pintarradas, Ediciones Trea, Gijón, 2007
  38. ↑ See the Spanish Foreign Relations Ministry home page on Ernst Barlach Award 2016 to Jorge Rando's art. See El Pintor Jorge Rando obtiene el Premio Ernst Barlach 2016 ( http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/BERLIN/es/Noticias/Paginas/Articulos/20160314_NOT1.aspx) or art's electronics magazine on the first Spanish painter to receive the Ernst Barlach award (http://www.xtrart.es/2015/10/15/jorge-rando-primer-espanol-en-recibir-el-premio-ernst-barlach-2016-alemania/)
  39. ↑ See http://www.art-magazin.de/kunst/ausstellungstipps/14314-bstr-its-match/111046-img-hamburg
  40. ↑ See Bibliography in this page.
  41. ↑ Carmen Pallarés, Rando ¡Mas Luz!, Ediciones Tres, Gijón, 2007
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