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
CICA Vancouver x Ángeles Agrela
ONE OF US: Yann Leto conversation with Manuel Ocampo
Yann Leto: ONE OF US Exhibition: 3th September – 16th October, 2022 Conversation with Manuel Ocampo Manuel Ocampo: You mention Freaks in your statement. What a movie! Do you feel yourself or your work have an affinity with the grotesque?...
Solo project by Daniel Núñez at ARTE SANTANDER 2022
GRANDIOSE DELUSIONS IN D MENOR
12SEP / 30OCT · 2024 GRANDIOSE DELUSION IN D MINOR Pow Martinez Exhibition: September 12th of 2024 – October 30th of 2024 Opening: During the opening days of Madrid Gallery Weekend: - Thursday, September 12: from 1:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. - Friday,...
JEWEL QUEST
15SEP / 15OCT · 2023 JEWEL QUEST Fran Baena, Laura Vinós y Ramón Muñoz Laura Vinós, Fran Baena, and Ramón Muñoz present “Jewel Quest,” a pictorial proposal in which each artist "seeks...