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
Descubrir el arte / Ángeles Agrela. El cuerpo como hilo conductor de narraciones
Ana Barriga. Plantas de interior. Taller
“Plantas de interior”, un taller artístico con Ana Barriga en tiempos de encierro. El Festival de Artes Contemporáneas de Bellas Artes (FACBA) propone la realización de un taller de creación con la artista Ana Barriga. La actividad dará comienzo el próximo martes 31...
Granada hoy / Única, personal e intransferible
YENDO / VINIENDO
4MAR/ 30MAR · 2023 Yendo / Viniendo A generational review of the possibilities of figuration today Curro González / Salomé del Campo / Federico Guzmán / José María Córdoba / Concha Ybarra / Manolo Cuervo / Paco Sanguino / Chema Lumbreras / Rafael...
OLD MASTERS
21FEB / 12APR · 2023 OLD MASTERSJulio AnayaIn a conversation with Javier Díaz Guardiola, Julio Anaya recollects that he began his project “doing interventions in the abandoned, inhospitable, and decadent, routine haunts of the world of graffiti. In...