24/10 - 29/11, 2019

THE CELEBRATION OF THE ASHES

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Carranza, Lima, 1981, graduated in 2006 from the National Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru, specializing in academic training as an artist in the specialties of painting and drawing. This exhibition of paintings by Carranza consists of a set of 10 works worked in oil on canvas of medium and large format, in which reference to force, imposition, fragmentation, chaos, between men in and with nature, is evidenced, in grandiloquent compositions that must be looked at with the eyes wide open, as he somehow points out with his characters. THE CELEBRATION OF THE ASHES. “...It is increasingly difficult to distinguish what happens in each scene: the characters, -although interwoven with each other- in addition to showing that they are experiencing visions caused by different disorders and torments, wear outfits that indicate that they also come from different eras: biblical-like characters, centurions, naturalists as well as modern executioners and their victims, look confined in that lustful quagmire that constitutes the primary location of the pictorial imaginary of Jose Luis Carranza.

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WORKS

Artemisia

2019 Oil on linen 180 x 150 cm

Golconda

2019 Oil on linen 150 x 180 cm

Lázaro Nacido

2019 Oil on linen 150 cm

ARTISTS

Jose Luis Carranza

(b. 1981, Lima, Peru) Jose Luis Carranza works long and strict hours, with work days varying from 2 to 16 hours, depending on the intensity required to fulfil the instinctive need that drives his practice. He completed his artistic studies during a time where it was believed that an artist should ‘justify’ his ideas, which he now seeks to destroy with his work. He does not enjoy painting, nor takes pleasure in it, but the need to control his anguish through the creative process is greater than the burden painting causes him. The artist works spontaneously, evoking memories of his childhood and early contact with life experiences. Despite the strong surreal imagery of his work, Carranza doesn’t aim at creating an imaginary world, in his own words, he describes it as: “I don’t escape reality, on the contrary, I move parallel to it”. Carranza has had over a dozen of individual exhibitions, most recently “Historia Natural” in 2017 and “La celebración de las cenizas” in 2019 at Enlace Art Gallery, Lima, Peru.

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