carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce CORAZONADAS, Luis Gordillo’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. One of the foremost artists working in Spain, Luis Gordillo’s accomplished career spans over six decades. His distinct approach to the image is propelled by a metabolic impulse that appropriates and reconfigures a vast array of visual input, ranging from photography and comics to more traditional painterly techniques. The artist’s abiding interest in psychoanalysis has shaped a complex and layered style of painting that builds worlds within worlds, encompassing multifarious and at times conflicting perspectives. “While I’m painting,” Gordillo explains, “I have a feeling of perforating, of making holes. I’m asking myself what’s at the bottom of this.”¹ This layered approach to constructing an image, which curator Dieter Schwarz has described as a kind of mise en abyme, testifies to the depth and expansiveness of Gordillo’s vision.