Investigating the evocative power of negative space and gestural restraint, Asimetrías #10 (2026) by Alec Franco explores how silence within a composition generates rich visual meaning. Spanning an impressive 160 x 120 cm (63 x 47.2 in), this large format abstract painting is created on a unique pink bonded knit fabric featuring a distinct vertical ribbed texture that serves as both support and active element. Upon this monochromatic field, Franco applies acrylic and oil pastel in concentrated, expressive marks that condense and dissolve rather than attempt to fill the canvas. The artwork asserts that balance is an intuitive perceptual experience, relying on the dynamic interplay between density and void, presence and absence. Through its tactile textile ground and refined economic mark-making, this piece delivers an authoritative statement in contemporary abstraction.
Asymmetries explores the capacity of emptiness to produce meaning. Painting is no longer understood as an accumulation of matter but begins to function as an economy of decisions, where each gesture acquires intensity precisely because there is a vast surface that chooses to remain silent. Organic forms do not represent objects; they function as events. They burst forth, condense, and then seem to dissolve within a space that never attempts to become complete. The work suggests that balance is not a geometric condition but a perceptual experience: what appears unbalanced finds stability thanks to the relationship between density and emptiness, between expansion and restraint, between presence and absence.
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Large Format Abstract Painting - Asimetrías #10, 2026. By Alec Franco
Asimetrias #10, 2026
From The Asimetrías (Asymmetries) Series
bonded knit fabric
Dimensions: 63 H x 47.2 W in.
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.
