Jordi Mollá, an actor who plays the painter. (Courtesy of the artist and the Mark Hashem gallery)
As the "Guest of Honor" at the closing ceremony of the 29th European Film Festival in Beirut, Jordi Mollà attended the screening of "Jamón Jamón," the cult film restored in which he made his debut in 1992 alongside Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Since then, the Spanish actor, specifying that he is Catalan, has made his mark internationally while also engaging in directing, writing, and painting. Dividing his time between Los Angeles and Madrid, the multidisciplinary artist, brimming with creativity and with piercing green eyes – sometimes sparkling with mischief, sometimes drifting off mid-conversation or becoming worryingly intense – seemed to have created his own character.Fantastically intense. Somewhat like Salvador Dali, another famous Catalan known for his self-centered and bombastic statements, whose...
As the "Guest of Honor" at the closing ceremony of the 29th European Film Festival in Beirut, Jordi Mollà attended the screening of "Jamón Jamón," the cult film restored in which he made his debut in 1992 alongside Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Since then, the Spanish actor, specifying that he is Catalan, has made his mark internationally while also engaging in directing, writing, and painting. Dividing his time between Los Angeles and Madrid, the multidisciplinary artist, brimming with creativity and with piercing green eyes – sometimes sparkling with mischief, sometimes drifting off mid-conversation or becoming worryingly intense – seemed to have created his own character.Fantastically intense. Somewhat like Salvador Dali, another famous Catalan known for his self-centered and bombastic statements,...
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