1999, Lives and works in Priego de Córdoba, España.
Fran Baena (Priego de Córdoba, 1999) tries to establish a link with the adolescents of today and the dire tomorrow that seems to be coming, constructing a work that embodies a friend to cry with and laugh, in this way creating evidence of the aftermath of contemporary sadness, in the same way that rock and alternative music bands have done since the 80s.
His painting is particularly linked to the post-internet world, highlighting the poetic politics that implicate painting and the images consumed on the web. Paying special attention to the irony currently used to laugh at our misfortunes as a last resort, he does this through the analysis of sad and cynical memes and songs. His work is a record of the uncertainty of our contemporary tragicomedy, together with a deeply existentialist philosophy: Of being so alive that one only thinks of death.
Because no depressed person wants to die, they merely wish to escape from life.
EDUCATION
| 2017-2021 | GRANADA | Grado universitario en Bellas Artes. Facultad Alonso Cano |
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 |
Salon Brand New. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid. Identidad en la sala. Palacio de Condes de Gabia. Granada. 3×4. Fundación Rafael Botí. Córdoba. Variaciones sobre el Bodegón del Cardo de Sanchez Cotán. Galería Fúcares. Almagro, Ciudad Real. Exposición_1. Colectivo Acta. Palacio del Almirante. Granada. Under 35 #5th edition. Galería GACMA. Málaga. Post-Pandemónium. Colección Museográfica Gilena. Sevilla. |
| 2020 |
Premios Alonso Cano a la Creación Artística 2020 de la Universidad de Granada. Palacio del Almirante. Granada. Plantas de Interior. FACBA’20. Hospital Real de Granada. |
| 2019 |
Valientes Gamberros. Estudio22. Logroño. 2019- Las líneas del destino. Sala de exposiciones facultad Alonso Cano, FACBA’19. Granada. |
| 2018 | Arte Aparte X. Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Francisco Casas. La Carolina. |
| 2017 | Festival de Arte Wasqha. Sala Albayate. Almedinilla. |
COLLECTIONS
Premio Adquisición Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Granada
Ángeles Agrela, un modo femenino de mirar.
Ángeles Agrela, un modo femenino de mirar. Autor: Fernando Castro Flórez Localización: Descubrir el arte, ISSN 1578-9047, Nº 302 (abril), 2024, págs. 60-63 Resumen Esta artista multimedial, que ha logrado sintetizar la felicidad que le proporciona el arte, compone...
Ramón Muñoz: A SOGA Y TIZÓN
https://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com/pac/a-soga-y-tizon-ramon-munoz-en-la-galeria-yusto-giner-marbella/
Fran Baena: “En los memes nada es tan banal como parece”
https://elemmental.com/2024/02/06/fran-baena-entrevista/
ART BUSAN 2024
9/12 MAY · 2024 ART BUSAN 2024 Busan (South Korea) 9 - 12 May 2024 Booth A-2 Showing: Ángeles Agrela Daniel Núñez Fran Baena Laura Vinós Liam Fallon Miguel Scheroff Yann Leto fair web
LA HUELLA SECA
6APR / 25MAY · 2024 LA HUELLA SECA Manuel León Manuel León embodies the Flow, long before urbanites devoid of street cred and psychologists appropriated the word, and he will continue to do so even after rappers have long forgotten...