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
Meeting: Mariano Navarro, Fernando Castro, Paco Celorrio y Laura Vinós, moderada por Sema D’Acosta
CAMPING MARBELLA
Ricardo León: Camping Marbella Exhibition: 2nd April – 17th May, 2022 The Yusto / Giner Gallery presents the first individual exhibition of Ricardo León in its space in Marbella. In Camping Marbella, León appropriates degraded images, since these documents...
Ana Barriga // “La entrevista final” last interview on paper by the newspaper El Mundo
SABOTAJE ESTÉTICO
1JUL / 30JUL · 2022 Jessica Boubetra / Virginia Leonard / Miguel Ortega / Ebony Russell / LITTLE / Daniel Núñez / Paula Juchem / Jake Clark SABOTAJE ESTÉTICO Many mythologies, legends and religions of the ancient world have narrated the origin of...
COO COO CA CHOO
Gabrielle Graessle 17JUN / 22JUL · 2022 COO COO CA CHOO Gabrielle Graessle The Graduate was released in 1967, where a young Dustin Hoffman played a student seduced by his girl’s mother. Simon and Garfunkel, the most famous singer-songwriters of their...