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Carlos Álvarez Las Heras: Mano, 2017. Painted plaster and wood, 30 x 19 x 19 cm.
The figurative painting and ceramics are the centre for Carlos Álvarez Las Heras’ practice. Humans, animals, and objects are pictured and formed in interiors and landscapes in distorted spaces and impossible perspectives. With an almost naïve approach to his colours, Álvarez Las Heras creates
a textuality which lets every work’s motive dissolve into patterned fields of powerful colour. In the same way he treats the surface of his ceramic works; fields and colours are turned into ornamentation which attain an almost graphical character. All elements in each work demand their own attention. In his works, Álvarez Las Heras uses a series of different symbolically loaded motives which all refer to big existential themes and problematics such as time’s passing, love, freedom, and hope.
Carlos Álvarez Las Heras (1982, ES) holds an MA from Universidad Complutense, Madrid. In 2005, he was invited
to exhibit at College of Spain in Paris where he afterwards received the price The Medal to Artistic Merit in Plastic Arts. Álvarez Las Heras has exhibited at Galleri Tom Christof-fersen, DK; Galería El arte de lo Imposible, ES; ARCO, ES and Revellin Museum ES. He has done commissioned works such as a wall painting for the city León and Madrid-Barajas Airport.
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