IN THE OFFICE II – Jordi Castells – 2015 – 2023
IN THE OFFICE II – Jordi Castells – 2015 – 2023
This series of Artsurprise itself is a message in a bottle. On stock for over 8 years it was published in june 2023 after stored many years.
Castells, a well-known and very dedicated printmaker from Tortosa (Spain), once answered the question about the motivation for his art very wisely: My motivation comes from the power I feel when I work against entropy.
The „In the office“ series reflects the situation of people in the modern working spaces. Castells has produced several limited edition prints dedicated to the subject and reality in the office spaces of the period.
This limited series is much more than a digital copy of an excerpt from one of these works. It plays with reality. On the one hand, it appears to be a digital copy of an art print. But the moment the new owner holds this work in his hands gives it something unique. The thoughts that this moment triggers in people when they look at this work, enrich this one copy even further with something unique, something special.
After the years of the postulated pandemic, the relationship with the office is divided. Some have learned to love the home office, others long for the distance from home and family, at least for a while.
Whatever this digital work triggers in the viewer, it is a symbol of upheaval. Created in 2015, it rested for a long time until publication and thus forms a bracket around the past years.
The artist chose the detail with care. It is also a moment in gender communication, what choose more contemporary in these times…
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