Cintra and Frenetic Diptych is an imposing two-panel work that embodies the artist's obsession with the invisible: the movement of particles, bodily fluids, and the connection between the macrocosm and the microcosm. Against an absolute black background that evokes both the cellular void and the deep space of the universe, Alec Franco unfolds an ecosystem of organic forms, wandering lines, and dense layers of matter. Through mixed media, the two pieces engage in a dialogue with each other through opposing tensions. As a whole, the diptych transcends rational boundaries and draws the viewer into a celluloid and cellular space, posing an existential question: are we isolated individuals or are we part of a single, interconnected organism?
The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with expressionist and other surrealist overtones, where the work expands into various formats and supports (acrylics, oils, pastels, charcoal, asphalt paint, synthetic enamel, on canvas , paper, wood and steel) transiting mixed media materialities that overlap, crushing the apparent figures against heterogeneous backgrounds.The work generates a sensation of fluidity, of liquids, of movement. Sensation of being in a celluloid space, inhabited by atoms, particles, that are in constant movement. This creates the idea of a corporeal space within the body. Of microorganisms, microscopic systems. Generating a sensation of the macro and the micro. Macrocosm and microcosm. I wonder: Are we one or are we all? Are we something alone, individual, or are we connected, interrelated? How is it that such a tiny universe in turn reproduces itself in everyone, therefore becoming an immense massive universe? How is the movement from the smaller universe to the larger universe understood? What gives or maintains that movement?
Explore microcosm painting. An abstract mixed-media diptych that defies reason through color, fluids, and cellular movement. from Nova series. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach
Abstract Microcosm Painting, Cintra and Frenetic Diptych - from Nova, 2024 By Fr
Cintra and Frenetic Diptych, 2024
From The Nova Series
Mixed media (Acrylic and pastel) on black canvas
Dimensions:
Overall size: 74.8 H x 106.2 W in.
Individual size: 74.8 H x 53.1 W in.Mounted on a stretcher
Signed by the artist
Alec Franco was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he currently resides. He has been a graphic designer since 1995. He began painting in 1991 and in 1993 he attended the drawing and airbrushing workshops of Ignacio Otero. His training continues in the workshops of Abstract Expressionism of Marco Otero, of Essentialism with Heriberto Zorrilla and Helena Distéfano. By 2012 he deepened his technique with Sergio Bazán and later perfected it in the clinic of Fabiana Barreda and that of María Carolina Baulo who was the curator of one of his latest samples Harena. He has been an editor together with other artists, writers, and designers of Hoornik Collection Art Magazine since 2016. Franco has made numerous samples between 2011 and 2017: at The Redchurch Gallery in Shoreditch, London in 2012-2013; at Stupid Perfection at the Borges Cultural Center in 2013; at the Buenos Aires Design in 2015; in the same year in the Honorable Senate of the Argentine Nation and in the Recoleta Cultural Center of Buenos Aires; the following year at the San Isidro Open Studio. The most recent: Harena, was exhibited at the Newbery Central Gallery and the Esteban Lisa Foundation in 2017.
