Jorge Cardarelli
Sunday, 13 September 2009
“I’ve come to visit the painter Jorge Cardarelli in his spacious studio in the Chamberi neighbourhood of Madrid… I met Cadarelli about eleven or twelve years ago… Being born in 1971, he was very young then. He had just held, or was about to hold, his first individual exhibition in the nearby town of Biarritz, made up of collages… Nowadays Cardarelli, who somehow resembles the Cocteauian “prince frivole” and regards himself as “sick with loneliness”, leads a brilliant, wandering life - and also melancholic, like any roaming - which revolves around a single thing: painting. A brilliant, wandering life compatible with many hours of concentration, meditation and study.”
Excerpt written by Juan Manuel Bonet. Read the rest at the artist’s website.