Jorge Ortuno

I work with figurative painting as a site of pressure and confrontation.
My practice is rooted in classical painting, but deliberately pushed toward instability, collapse, and physical gesture.

I am interested in moments where the image begins to fail — where bodies collide, dissolve, or resist being fully represented. Painting, for me, is not about description or harmony, but about tension, ambiguity, and the limits of control.

My work often engages with charged imagery and cultural symbols, not to illustrate them, but to expose their contradictions. I approach painting as a direct, physical act: fast, decisive, and irreversible.

I do not work through repetition or production. Each painting defines its own conditions and place within a coherent body of work.

• 2002–2008 — Fine Arts, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• 2006–2007 — ERASMUS exchange, Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle, Germany

Solo exhibitions
• Lost and Found — Driesch:Klonaris Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2010)
• Caminos–Wege — Sol de Oro Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2006)

Group exhibitions
• Round 1 — Driesch:Klonaris Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2010)
• Summer of Love — Born+Busse Gallery, Leipzig, Germany (2009)
• Anonyme Zeichner #9 — Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2008)