Jorge Queiroz

There is no term commonly used in art history that might be applied to Jorge Queiroz’ works. His often large-format artworks on paper integrate different materials, and they are neither sketch-like preparation for later work, nor do they represent self-contained artistic products in themselves. The fifty new works that he is showing at the Künstlerhaus are thus pointers to an artist’s book that he is producing at present, without simply being preparatory sketches – at the same time, however, the book is only one of several components, and subordinate to the overall project. In this way, Queiroz rejects traditional interpretations and narrative structures, and the viewer’s imagination is granted a free rein by the composite beings – oscillating somewhere between man, animal and plant – that he is occasionally able to discern in the artist’s drawings.