CARRASQUER – POLARIS
Y LO QUE ME FALTA ME LO IMAGINO / WHAT I MISS I IMAGINE / CE QUI ME MANQUE JE L’IMAGINE
What better title for an artist!
Everything that is missing from his universe, from his thoughts, Marcos Carrasquer imagines and will paint and draw it for us.
Marcos Carrasquer finds, through painting, a way to bring some order to this confused society. He then finds a way to « portrait » us with unfailing humour. And as he points out, none of his works can unfortunately go beyond our daily reality. His painting is then the conscience of our society.
It is not the artist who is portrayed, but us in the world. Marcos Carrasquer’s work parsimoniously analyses the complexities of life. And we can forgive him for spying on us so happily, for dissecting us so maliciously, for making us his raw material. Marcos Carrasquer has this ease of analysis, of looking at our era with derision, and of digesting and spitting out our shortcomings with a dexterity of brush and pen and a mastery of detail.
He then uses painting as a weapon of intelligence, he is the best interpreter of our anxieties, because he opens our eyes, and bares us in our time. Not everything is pleasant to look at, and this weapon can hurt, because we are not in fictional painting, but what irony! what illumination! what truths! on human beings, on our history, our society, our culture. What a powerful freedom of expression!
A work that helps us not to forget, that helps us not to become ghosts too quickly, and finally, to understand what is an artist .