Description
‘Food’ by Alan Carroll Navarro
Artist: Alan Carroll Navarro
Title: ‘Food’
Medium: Drawing on paper
Dimensions: 11.5″ x 11.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
My name is Alan Carroll Navarro, I was born in 1978 in the city of Valparaíso, Chile.
My artistic training was carried out while studying architecture for a few years at the University of Valparaíso and then studying for a degree in art at the University of Playa Ancha.
Since the year 2000 I have participated in a series of individual and collective exhibitions throughout Chile.
The origin of my work is related to the need and pleasure that I find in the practice of painting as an exercise in the production of images and the construction of a story or visual narrative.
My search has pursued the construction of a coherent visual world where my own desires, fears, dreams and shortcomings can manifest.
Finally, it is important for me to highlight the fact that for some years I have been working on the idea of TRANSFORMATION as the central axis of my paintings, in this way all the works of my production are united and related to each other not only by formal aspects and aesthetic but also for thematic and discursive aspects.
The origin of my work is found in the deep interest that painting arouses in me as a form of communication and above all the possibility that it gives me to be able to tell a story, build a fictional world, create characters that embody aspects of the condition human, characters who seek their metamorphosis moved by the will as well as worker characters in charge of the development and operation of this invented world. The recurring theme of my work is transformation, the search for change, finally in formal terms my painting is characterized by the simplification of the form and the flat use of color and I have always thought that I have a natural inclination for a type of image of rather graphic characteristics.