Luis Gordillo: "When something looks nice, I suspect"

The artist Luis Gordillo, portrayed on Tuesday in his studio in Madrid.

Photo: Inma FloresINMA FLORES / EL PAIS

There is a kind of biting, brown nostalgia that dwells between sensory neurons.

It is like a small memory full of unviable and obsessive paths, with a calm pulse and nervous impulse, like the painting by Luis Gordillo (Seville, 1934): anatomical labyrinths, like the cerebral hemispheres, full of narrative tensions and chromatic holes.

Closed circuits full of doubts.

Those of the artist have long lived in a cellular world as if they were leukocytes, which provide him with antibodies even from himself.

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