BIO
2002
Licence de Beaux arts // Université Complutense de Madrid Solo exhibitions //
Expositions personnelles
2020 Gallery Bea Villamarín, Gijón. “Patria” Pigment Gallery, Barcelona. “Package” 2019 Gallery Ansorena, Madrid. “Mitología de interior”
2018 Gallery Bea Villamarín, Gijón. “Hazañas Bélicas”
2016 Gallery Bea Villamarín, Gijón. “Mi Familia y otros animales”
2015 Gallery Perve, Lisboa
Gallery Bea Villamarín. Gijón. “Momento de Presentaciones”
2012 Art room Van Dyck, Gijón. “Vacíos Llenos”
Art center Musée de Almería, Almería. “ Zoo Lógico”
2009 Gallery Alfama,Madrid
Sala de Arte Van Dyck, Gijón. “Zoo lógico” 2008 GaleríaClave,Córdoba
Galería Orfila, Madrid. “Anima L”
2007 Gallery Campos,Zaragoza.“Bestiario”
2006 Art room VanDyck,Gijón.“Sentimientos”
2004 Center Asturia node Oviedo.“Antropología Animal”
Club de Campo de Torrelodones. “Ataduras”
2002 Casa de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Torrelodones, “Antropología Animal” 2000 Torredel Reloj, Noreña(Asturias)
Group shows // Expositions collectives
2020 Gallery Ansorena, Madrid Fermín Echauri, Pamplona. 2019 Bea Villamarín, Gijón Two Art Gallery, Murcia
2018 Fermín Echauri, Pamplona Two Art Gallery, Murcia P-Art Ibiza, Ibiza
100Kubik, Colonia, Alemania
2017 Bea Villamarín, Gijón
Gallery Ansorena, Madrid
2016 Conexões Afro-Ibero-Americanas. Perve Galería, Lisboa
Caminos que se cruzan al sur, Musée Casa Ibañez, Almería Cenre d’art Musée de Almería Gallery Ansorena, Madrid
Realismo en España 50 años, Sala Baluarte, Madrid
2015 Bea Villamarín, Gijón 100Kubik, Colonia, Alemania Gallery Ansorena, Madrid 2014 Art room Van Dyck, Gijón Anmoder, Madrid
2013 Art room Van Dyck, Gijón. Galería Santiago Echeberría, Madrid Anmoder, Madrid 2012 Gallery Karton, “Figuraciones”, Huércal-Overa, Almería Art room Van Dyck, Gijón Anmoder, Madrid
Gallery Alfama, “Pequeño formato”, Madrid
Honors // Prix et distinctions :
2018 Médaille d’honneur XXXIII Premio BMW de Pintura 2017 XX Premio Nacional de Pin- tura de Villaviciosa
XXXII Prix BMW de Pintura (Selección) 2014 XXIX Premio BMW de Pintura (Selección) 2013 XVIII Prix BMW de Pintura (Selección) 2011 Mención de Honor Premio IberCaja 2012
XXVII Prix BMW de Pintura (Selección)
2010 Médaille d’honneur XXV Premio BMW de Pintura.
V Concours de Pintura Figurativa, Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas. (Preselección) 2009 X Concours Pintura Contemporánea deT orrelodones
(Premio adquisición Casino Gran Madrid).
XXIV Prix BMW de Pintura, (Selección)
IV Concours de Pintura Figurativa, Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas. (Sélection) 2006 Prix Saexma. II Certamen de Pintura de Pequeño Formato. (Sélection)
2004 Concours Europeo de Pintura “Antonio López 2004”. (Sélection)
2002 III Concours de Pintura Contemporánea de Torrelodones (Prix acquisition Casino Gran Madrid)
2001 Prix Joven d’Arts plastiques, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
II Concours de Pintura Contemporánea de Torrelodones.(Sélection)
2000 Prix de Arts plastiques de la Faculté des Beaux Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Acquisition)
Prix de Peinture Fundación Valparaíso (Mención Honorífica)
Born in 1976, Madrid
Leaves and works in Madrid Spain)
Carlos Tárdez (Madrid, 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist who could be framed in figurative art but with the added bonus that his paintings hide a deep symbolic layer behind an appearance of everyday life. As Tárdez himself explains, «My work is born out of my experiences. I try to always keep in mind the banality of what I do, because only from unpretentious sincerity does the idea arise. Every day new elements appear and reappear. That’s why I don’t set myself any objectives. I paint out of an inner need. It is from my own work that new questions arise, new projects».
Both in painting and sculpture, he has achieved a high level of quality that has earned him, among many other awards, the BMW Medal of Honor in 2010 and 2018.
Both in his paintings and his in sculptures there are mythological connotations, double meanings and great irony in the reinterpretations of everyday scenes and objects.
This fact is particularly evident in his sculpture (in this case, in addition to the polychrome resins, there are also pieces made of bronze), where he uses a preconceived idea or an object associated with a meaning and turns it upside down.
On the canvas he tries to express the idea in the most direct way possible, his pictorial tech- nique and the realism employed are careful, generating simple and emphatic compositions in which emptiness takes on a meaning and, in many cases, carries the conceptual weight in a treatment of space that drinks directly from abstract painting.
Color also has a direct relationship with the distribution of space, atmosphere and depth. The psychological influence and symbolic value of color are given great importance. It is also com- mon to see horizontal or vertical bands of matt black appearing in his paintings that delimit the space.
It is a symbolic figuration, with a series of resources that have enriched its own iconography. The title of each of the works suggests and reinforces the idea on many occasions, always leaving open the subjective interpretation of the viewer.
Sometimes, animals become the protagonists of his paintings, he uses them to represent feelings or vital moments. The choice of the animal is related to the preconceived idea we have of that animal to describe everyday situations. In short, he looks for an analogy in the traits of his animality that serves to express human feelings and situations.
Each animal evokes in the artist a series of sensations. The bird as a symbol of freedom, fragility, the retained movement, but also, and especially the sparrow, as a social element, of city and country, which interacts and is one and many as part of the mass. The monkey as the human animal. Last step towards the human being. It is cousin by primate and it is cousin by family. Special importance is given to the postures, the reflective look and the hands.
Carlos Tardez
