Carlos Franco

Con mucho arte

On this occasion, Carlos Franco takes us on a journey from the mythological, the union of feeling and style to approach the theme of bullfighting, from classicism to contemporaneity, through an overflowing chromaticism, inspired by Brazil. Franco portrays the scenes from the arena, and not from the stands, bringing a touch of drama, magic and mortality, which makes us interpret the fiesta as a space of individualism and at the same time of ceremonial fraternisation with others.
Con mucho arte

Works

  • Serie ermitaños 83

    Carlos Franco

    "Serie ermitaños 83"

    2005

    58 x 177 cm

    Ed. 4/5

    Impresión digital y serigrafía

  • Ermitaños 85

    Carlos Franco

    "Ermitaños 85"

    2005

    58 x 177 cm

    Impresión digital y serigrafía sobre papel

  • Parto de los montes II

    Carlos Franco

    "Parto de los montes II"

    2005

    100 x 122 cm

    Mixta sobre metacrilato

  • Primavera

    Carlos Franco

    "Primavera"

    1998

    81 x 64 cm

    Aguafuerte y aguatinta sobre papel

  • El invierno

    Carlos Franco

    "El invierno"

    1998

    81 x 64 cm

    Aguafuerte y aguatinta sobre papel

  • El otoño

    Carlos Franco

    "El otoño"

    1998

    81 x 64 cm

    Aguafuerte y aguatinta sobre papel

  • Verano

    Carlos Franco

    "Verano"

    1998

    81 x 64 cm

    Aguafuerte y aguatinta sobre papel

Reviews

WITH A LOT OF ART

WITH A LOT OF ART

FERNANDO CASTRO FLÓREZ

In 1933 Picasso illustrated the surrealist magazine Minotaure, confronting that hybrid beast of humanity with enormous freedom. Carlos Franco, on the other hand, does not make a subjective projection about the fierce inhabitant of the cunning dedálica construction but, as I have indicated, he places his gaze in the zone of the subaltern or, to put it in bullfight terms, he is at ease, knowing of that the passes and the ornaments of the teacher can end fatally.

Carlos Franco likes to take risks. And, certainly, to make his own bullfighting is not afraid of the dogmatism of the cabales or the verbosity of the detractors of the party. He admires the plasticity of the exceptional time of the bullfight, the emphatic democracy that prevails there and, of course, the radical appearance of the sacrificial.

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