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CARRASQUER - POLARIS

CARRASQUER – POLARIS

15 rue Des Arquebusiers 75003 Paris +33 1 42 72 21 27
25-04-2021 - 26-06-2021
https://www.galeriepolaris.fr/

MARCOS CARRASQUER
QUE LA FÊTE COMMENCE !

Marcos Carrasquer’s paintings possess a very paradoxical plastic seduction, an intense symbolic charge and an ambiguous vocation which is in the very nature of the language of his images.
Inspired by figures from our contemporary world, Marcos Carrasquer smears them, parodies and puts outrageous make-up on them in order to highlight the ridiculous, the factitious. His pictorial universe thus delimited, the artist refines his characters and their environment, pushes them into their entrenchment, affirming the grotesque of these situations. What could be more banal than a woman at home but in Life on Earth, the mermaid is naked, exhausted, on the edge of the abyss … while she still has faith in Chinese forecasts from fortune cookies, only the fish, at ease in his sheltered aquarium is unfazed.

The canvas is saturated with elements of all kinds and from different eras. Certain forces complement each other, other details emerge for the benefit of denouncing consumerism, political perversions, the Church, the crookedness of the powerful. If the tragic is always present in his works in the same way as a corrosive humor, Marcos Carrasquer tries to sow disorder and panic to suggest break-ups, sometimes reconciliations. Marcos does not seek to carry out a precise critique of a time in history nor of the awkward place occupied by the avant-garde in the collective consciousness of art historians. He discovers a revealing effect in the historical change of scenery, as for example in his triptych entitled Just Paint, where we find as the main character Malevich in flight attendant of a plane in distress, we attend the funeral of Malevich whose last wish – a cross-shaped coffin – doesn’t fit through the door and Jackson Pollock throwing his whiskey in Franco’s face in Nelson Rockefeller’s apartment. His precise and detailed figuration takes hold of the weight of derision, of laughter … His palette juxtaposes on the same surface scenes lived in different moments. The quality of the drawing, the pencil stroke, the composition serve a universe where the value systems and situations are never stable, where big events are reduced to small playful dramas.

Once again, the stimulation provoked by the paintings of Marcos Carrasquer gives rise to analogies, chains of events , movements of a dreamlike nature which are sufficient to delight the viewer.The titles – Life on Earth, Vous êtes ici / You

are here, The Annunciation – precede and follow the painting, giving it its obviousness and its impact force.
To our great delight, Marcos Carrasquer’s art is ruled by confusion, humor, terror, chance and euphoria. It engulfs morality and consensus and the viewer licks its chops.

Françoise Docquiert
This text was written for the Marcos Carrasquer exhibition
Que la fête commence !, at the Polaris gallery from May 6 to June 26, 2021.

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