Carlos Nicanor
Bio
Exposiciones individuales :
2020
“Dile a Caronte que le traigo flores”. Fundación Cajacanarias (Tenerife)
2017
“Línea”. Solar Acción Cultural (Tenerife)
2017
“Neomismos. El fin de un pretexto”. Galería Artizar (Tenerife)
2016
“Neomismos. El barroco como pretexto”. Twin Gallery (Madrid)
2015
“Osmosis. Blancas + Nicanor”. Centro de Arte La Regenta. Las Palmas –Itinerancia-.
“Lemon way”. Detrás del Muro II. XII Bienal de La Habana.
“Osmosis. Blancas + Nicanor”. TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes).
2012
“SinBiología”, galería de arte Estudio ARTIZAR.
2010
“Antinatura”, galería de arte Estudio ARTIZAR.
2007
“El buscador del Norte.” Exposición en la galería Cuatrotablas
de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
2002
Exposición individual en la sala de exposiciones de la Facultad de Ciencias
de la Información.
Exposiciones colectivas:
2021
Ciudad tomada. Proyecto colectivo en el espacio urbano. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
A la manera de… Galería Rafael Ortiz. Sevilla
BFF. Furiosa Gallery. Madrid
Urvanity. COAM (Madrid). Furiosa Gallery
2020
Estampa ’20. IFEMA (Madrid). Furiosa Gallery – Noviembre
Urvanity. COAM (Madrid). Furiosa Gallery
2019
Deformaciones. Galería Artizar (Tenerife)
“Paisaje-Identidad-Lenguaje”. Museo de Artes Visuales de Montevideo (Uruguay)
Estampa ’19. IFEMA (Madrid). Galería Artizar
“Dos orillas 2” Estudio Arte Contemporáneo, La Habana (Cuba)
2018
Estampa ’18. IFEMA (Madrid). Galería Artizar
“La Verdad de Madame Sifira” . Solo Project, ArtMAdrid’18 (Madrid)
“Paisaje-Identidad-Lenguaje”. Centro de Arte Juan Ismael (Fuerteventura)
2017
“Dos orillas” Estudio Arte Contemporáneo, La Habana (Cuba)
“Paisaje-Identidad-Lenguaje”. Fundación CajaCanarias (Tenerife)
“Goaltending”. CCE, Miami. (EE.UU)
2017
“Goaltending”. CCE, Miami. (EE.UU)
Statement
He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna and began exhibiting his work in 2002. His works have been selected in biennial exhibitions both in Las Palmas and Tenerife, deserving first prizes such as the Excellens of sculpture of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel (2011) or the First Prize Manolo Millares CajaCanarias (2009). In 2006 he held his first solo exhibition, which he titled Buscador de nortes, in which under the motto “where everything is done and everything to be done” he would present a collection of veiled tributes to some of the sculptors he admires, Brancusi and Giacometti among others.
Among his exhibitions are Antinatura/Sinbiología (Galería Artizar 2010-2012), and Osmosis. Blancas + Nicanor (TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2015), as well as his participation in the XII Havana Biennial within the project Detrás del Muro, with the installation Lemon Way, in which he built a path of yellow wooden tiles that crossed the Malecón to die in the Caribbean, heading to La Florida.
Nicanor is a Brossanian sculptor. It is enough to see some of his latest works to understand that his creativity aspires to give shape to a work that will be a caustic alteration of the object and its meaning, always proposing a new and unusual one, and that such work postulates in many cases a Dadaist position that brings him closer to Arp and Duchamp. Carlos Nicanor’s sculptural intensity is poetic in nature. Perhaps that is why his work seems so comfortable and rigorously expressive when he makes his own the legacy of the avant-garde, especially Dadaism, and its ability to make self-sufficient objects, closed entities with which a cultural key is essential to communicate.
