AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY ALEC FRANCO
Nova Series
The artist's works are based on time and on informal aesthetic principles that he chooses to express himself. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction sometimes with tints. Expressionists and many other surrealists, where the work expands in formats and supports (acrylics, oils, pastels, charcoal, asphalt paint, synthetic enamel, on canvas, paper, wood, and steel) that transit and overlap crushing apparent figures on heterogeneous backgrounds. The work resists being framed in concepts, it goes beyond the contours and limits of the rational. It is not just a festival of colors, but a mixture and profusion of organic forms with a geometry that is not perceptible. The work generates a sensation of fluidity, of fluids, of movement. the sensation of being in a cellular space, inhabited by atoms and particles, which are in constant motion.
Nexa Series
Cápsula Series
Lab Series
Crimson Mirror
Silencio Series
Circuito Series
Gen Series
DNA Series
Between 2018 and 2019, Franco’s work becomes more selective, the palette and shapes have been redefined and restricted. Profusion and overflow continue to inhabit the canvas but with some reflexive caution because even the logos, the word, the reason, go through the work with the writing. The rationalization of the excess represented before in the eye has now become undisguised in the writing.
Language and writing have the purpose of defining concepts, at this stage the desire to understand is glimpsed in the work, hence the appeal to the written word. The writing imbricated with the visual forms is installed in Franco’s work, the counterpoint already prefixed in previous works but now more defined: it arises between the rational order and inharmony.
Células Activas Series
Séptico Series
ALEC FRANCO
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Alec Franco was born on August 7, 1972, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he currently resides. He has been a graphic designer since 1995. He began painting in 1991 and in 1993 he attended the drawing and airbrushing workshops of Ignacio Otero. His training continues in the workshops of Abstract Expressionism of Marco Otero, of Essentialism with Heriberto Zorrilla and Helena Distéfano. By 2012 he deepened his technique with Sergio Bazán and later perfected it in the clinic of Fabiana Barreda and that of María Carolina Baulo who was the curator of one of his latest samples Harena. He has been an editor together with other artists, writers, and designers of Hoornik Collection Art Magazine since 2016. He has made numerous samples between 2011 and 2017: at The Redchurch Gallery in Shoreditch, London in 2012-2013; at Stupid Perfection at the Borges Cultural Center in 2013; at the Buenos Aires Design in 2015; in the same year in the Honorable Senate of the Argentine Nation and in the Recoleta Cultural Center of Buenos Aires; the following year at the San Isidro Open Studio. The most recent: Harena, was exhibited at the Newbery Central Gallery and the Esteban Lisa Foundation in 2017.