Nexa #2 is a visual immersion into the mysterious corporeal space we all carry within. Against a deep, absolute black background that functions as a cosmic or cellular void, Alec Franco unfolds a complex central organic mass of dense and liquid textures. The work juxtaposes acrylic paint and synthetic enamel to simulate the behavior of constantly agitated biological fluids. Within this central conglomerate, biomorphic forms emerge, emulating atoms and microorganisms suspended in a viscous medium. The use of color is bold: dark, earthy tones are punctuated by flashes of neon lime green, turquoise blue, carmine, and pale cream hues. A series of wandering curved lines and linear filaments delineate and connect these living particles. The composition conveys a perpetual vibration, materializing the artist's profound question about the transition between the microscopic universe of our individual cells and the massive macrocosm that interconnects us all.
DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characterize us in our concrete individuality, make us unrepeatable and yet resist us. That chain of molecules constitutes a conglomerate of clues that someone elucidates because we do not know how to read it. We do not know the links that make up that nucleic acid that delineates us and characterizes us genetically. Curious phenomenon of not having access to such precise and accurate data about oneself. They skimp on us, they deny us despite having more authority than anyone to know their own characteristics. The geneticist, the scientist, is the one who can illustrate our exact and unique genetic conformation. We are carriers of a key that identifies us but we do not know. Alec Franco's DNA work inquires about this secret and inaccessible figure and displays these nucleic acid segments from color, shape and texture. DNA visually and plastically explores the morphology of our genetic sequence. Franco's series investigates that cryptography, its textures and nuances in a tension between the hidden hereditary transmission we carry and the manifested and displayed visually by his work. It raises the horror and emptiness of the encounter with oneself while his palette proposes the fullness and joyful plethora of those who reach self-knowledge, overcoming the initial horror of the encounter with their own identity and uniqueness that we carry without certainties. DNA proposes a way to access that knowledge that is elusive to us by another way, the artistic one.
Explore striking abstract painting that recreates a cellular universe full of movement, fluids, organic forms and atoms in constant connection. From GEN/ADN series. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach
