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
La verdad / Eduardo Balanza: «Soy superplataforma»
Europa Press / La artista Ana Barriga y el colectivo Fuentesal&Arenillas, ganadores de las Becas Daniel Vázquez Díaz 2019 en Huelva
La Diputación otorga la beca creación plástica Daniel Vázquez Díaz a Ana Barriga y a la pareja Julia Fuentesal y Pablo Arenilla
La Diputación de Huelva ha dado a conocer hoy los ganadores de la beca creación plástica Daniel Vázquez Díaz, una de las más prestigiosas de Andalucía y que desde el año 1993 viene apostando por los baluartes culturales de nuestro tiempo. Ana barriga y la pareja Julia...
EDEN
Doppeldenk22APR / 24MAY · 2022 Opening: friday 22 de abril EDEN Man is created, but what to do with him? God the Creator wanted Adam to have fun. Then he planted a Garden of Eden in the east. Four rivers provide the necessary fertility. Adam's mission: gardening...
CAMPING MARBELLA
Ricardo León2APR / 14MAY · 2022 Opening: Saturday March 2 CAMPING MARBELLA In Camping Marbella, León appropriates degraded images, since these documents are in themselves the result of an appropriation or degradation prior to that of the artist. In fact, he...