The sublime masterwork showcases a remarkable composition filled with visual subtlety and poetic restraint in Carlos Capelán’s career. This compelling mixed media painting stands out due to its floating, disconnected arrangement of biomorphic elements suspended over a clean, light canvas backdrop, conveying a profound sense of weightlessness and archaic mysticism. Within the prominent central shape, a fragmented countenance is rendered through fluid, maze-like black lines, while the upper sections protect delicate ovoid fields covered in dense, handwritten intellectual notations.
Capelán's work stands out for its rigorous handling of diverse artistic techniques and procedures, ranging from drawing to installation, including painting, printmaking, photography, and the manipulation of objects. The variety of expressive resources is matched by the multiplicity of interpretations his work evokes in the viewer. Capelán is a nomadic artist who transcends the boundaries of artistic languages as a way of questioning and crossing other boundaries: the political, economic, and cultural ones that compartmentalize our worldview.Carlos Capelán develops an artistic production with an anthropological bent and a great sensitivity to contemporary issues—related to the political, the social, and the territorial—working in diverse techniques and formats—painting, drawing, printmaking, objects, performances, photography, installations—transforming his artworks into "habitats" characterized by cultural hybridization and synthesis.
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Mixed Media Painting - Untitled #94029, 1994. by Carlos Capelán
Carlos Capelán
Untitled. #94029, 1994
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions:
Image size: 67.7 H x 56.2 W in.
Frame size: 68.7 H x 57.2 W x 1 D in.
Unique
Provenance Fernando Quintana gallery
Signed by the artist
Carlos Capelán is an uruguayan artist with a global perspective. His extensive work started with studies in Sweden leading to a professor´s position in the prestigious Vestland´s art academy in Norway. The language that operates in Capelan´s work is the perspective of being such a traveler and a participant in the process of exile; and representing through different styles and formats, breaking this way the traditional perspective of art. His exhibitions have reached countries like Chile, France, Italy and Spain.













