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Carlos Álvarez Las Heras: Sunday morning, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 101 x 101 cm.
The Spanish artist Carlos Álvarez Las Heras has figurative painting as his focal point. With strong and clear colors and an inspiration from the simple and caricatured lines of cartoons, Carlos Álvarez Las Heras creates detailed works that often depict interiors inhabited by animals, people, and numerous objects. The artist works with a narrative painting that often points to a story or an action, and he incorporates symbol-laden elements, such as in the work Sunday morning, where a crucifix hangs over a woman’s bed. The richness of detail in the works is particularly expressed in the pattern formations that Carlos Álvarez Las Heras works with. The stripes of a rug, a wooden headboard with visible cutouts and the lace edge of a bedspread receive as much attention as the people included
in the paintings. Carlos Álvares Las Heras draws a great deal of inspiration from literature. Most recently, he created an exhibition where his interest in the poetic narrative space manifested itself in each individual painting, which contained various references to the poems in Federico García Lorca’s Gypsy Ballads (Romancero Gitano, 1928).
Carlos Álvarez Las Heras (ES 1982) graduated from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid in 2005. Same year, he was invited to exhibit at the College of Spain in Paris, where he subsequently received the award The Medal to Artistic Merit in Plastic Arts. Carlos Álvarez Las Heras has, among other things, exhibited at Galería El arte de lo Imposible, ES; ARCO Madrid, ES; Revellin Museum, ES; Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK, and Cervantes Institute, UK. He has created a mural for the city of León and decorated Madrid-Barajas Airport. Carlos Álvarez Las Heras is represented by Wizard Gallery in London.
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