Jordi Pericot i Canaleta

Jordi Pericot i Canaleta (born November 16, 1931, in El Masnou, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish plastic artist and designer.

Biography Brother of the painter and set designer Santiago Pericot i Canaleta and son of the teacher Maria Canaleta i Abellà, he studied at the Normal School of Barcelona and at the Faculty of Letters and at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse (France). He graduated in philosophy at the University of Barcelona and French language at the University of Toulouse. He also obtained the title of doctor in art history at the University of Barcelona.

In 1958 he moved to France, where he introduced himself to experimental film techniques and began his artistic career. Between 1960 and 1967 he lived in Paris and dedicated himself to art, teaching and experimental cinema.

At the end of the sixties, it prioritized the most theoretical and teaching research field. In 1968, again in Barcelona, he was appointed director of the Elisava design school (a position he would hold until 1980), where he began a long research on visual communication that culminated in a thesis dedicated to this specialty. In Barcelona he maintains an outstanding artistic and cultural activity, especially in the search for kinetic art. He created the group MENTE ("Spanish Exhibition of New Aesthetic Trends"), which brings together personalities such as Oriol Bohigas, Ricard Bofill, Ricard Salvat, Josep Mestres Quadreny or Daniel Giralt-Miracle, and introduces the concepts he had cultivated in Paris in participatory and non-commercial artistic creation.