ART-PRESENTATION: Marcos Carrasquer-We Are Here
In his work Marcos Carrasquer mix tragic and grotesque, depicting an Orwellian humankind, strips naked the human being with all his flaws and vices. But Marcos Carrasquer inserts in his works a cutting humour which allows the viewers to distance themselves from subjects which are violent, sad or poetic. His works require a long and careful exploration in order to notice every detail since all is linked in his work.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Galerie Polaris Archive
Marcos Carrasquer was born in the Netherlands where his parents took refuge after fleeing Franco’s Regiment. He is a totally free artist, he doesn’t know what censorship means, his ultrai-precise graphics and his rebellious imagination are recognisable at first sight. In his solo exhibition “We are here” at the Galerie Polaris in Paris, the artist presents paintings and works on paper. Marcos Carrasquer uses ink, oil, alternately, alternately or conjugate, two languages familiar but autonomous in their own essence. His drawing are more like a book, a story of a comic strip, while his paintings are closer to the storyboard or the moving image, with the two mediums meeting at a dramatic point. The artist invents a world in which the signs of the past point at the future, Marcos Carrasquer is not only a metaphysical painter, but also a painter of the flesh and the communion of bodies, in their sometimes laughable confusion. His works have a political content that denounces both military horror, violence of war, pogrom, lynching, misery, famine, concentration camps, rapes, everything is there, faithfully reproduced. The scenes, which can be situated between nightmares and dreams, give Marcos Carrasquer the opportunity to mix tragic and grotesque. Through this micro-exploration of human cruelty, the manifestation of the nightmare, and violence, is also born hope in this theater of humanity
Info: Galerie Polaris, 15 rue des Arquebusiers, Paris, Duration: 27/1-24/2/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, http://galeriepolaris.fr
