CARRASQUER – POLARIS
Marcos Carrasquer’s new exhibition title could be a reference to border controls, reminding us of our powerlessness in the presence of authority. But here we’re talking about the artist Marcos Carrasquer, so if you ask him to open his suitcase, watch out, there’s going to be a lot coming out.
He’s known for his abundance of ideas. At each of his exhibitions, we anxiously await his way of seeing our world, of exposing human beings with all their weaknesses and faults. We also look forward to his caustic humor, his devastating poetry, his way of telling us about the reality of the world, of describing the phenomena that surround us from our humble position.
Combining the tragic and the grotesque, the scenes, which can be situated between nightmares and dreams, give the artist the opportunity to explore the theater of humanity in minute detail.
His often socially-critical works denounce many things, but also point the way to possible hope. Marcos Carrasquer uses painting to restore a bit of order to this confused society. And as he points out, none of his works can, unfortunately, transcend our everyday reality. His painting, then, is the conscience of our society.
We’ll forgive him for spying on us so joyfully, for dissecting us so maliciously, for making us his raw material, with derision, digesting and spitting out our failings with dexterity of brush and pen, and mastery of detail.At his fingertips, paint becomes a weapon of intelligence, opening our eyes. Not everything is pretty to look at, and this weapon can hurt, because we’re not in fiction painting, but what irony! So many truths! About human beings, about our history, our society, our culture. What a powerful freedom of expression!