Alec Franco
Illogical Season
Opening: November 14, 2024, 7 p.m.
Curator:
Natalia Albanese
Curatorial text
In this exhibition, artist Alec Franco presents a series of paintings that explore the movement of color, the versatility of the chromatic palette, and its morphology. Alec simultaneously deploys and dismantles the binaries that shape his works: laxity–tension or contraction–expansion.
These paintings come alive with reminiscences of organic and illogical strokes. They are the outcome of the artist’s process, inviting viewers to focus on the piece itself without the need for a rational concept to justify it.
As seen in the exhibition title, the word Season is used because Alec’s creative process constantly undergoes revision, lending a sense of exceptionality to this selection. Additionally, the word illogical emphasizes the artist’s continuous operation: he crafts a unique language with its own autonomy and specific rules, only to immediately dismantle it and begin anew.
The works exhibited in OTTO Gallería present a series of linguistic–chromatic elements that act poetically within this illogical temporal cut:
- Recurrence in fluids. He moves in and out of the painting; he doesn’t think it, he feels it. What we see is that flow. Once he formalizes a recurring pattern, he disassembles it and starts again.
- Weavings. Opposing any idea of axial geometry or the organization of a simple frame with bands of pure colors, the weavings appear as overlapping layers vibrating in their conjunctions, where irregularities and unique morphology emerge.
- Contrasts in the color palette. The artist traverses chromatic seasons, where he is fascinated by certain shades such as green, red, or violet. Once these are fully explored, he moves on to a new sequence, a new hue.
- The dripping was a mistake, and there it stayed.
- Small circular dots or presences. The tendency towards baroque saturation, with components of various sizes and shapes, generates a sense of resistance to the established, the predictable, the canonical in the surface layers of his works.
- The distorted spiral appears when the artist becomes fixated on something.
We hope you enjoy the vibrancy of the color, the movements of the strokes, and the subtleties of the juxtaposed surfaces.
