CARLOS DURÁN

12 MARCH-11 APRIL

Attached in his early years to what was known as New Figuration movement, alongside artists such as Guillermo Pérez Villalta and Chema Cobo, the paintings of Carlos Durán (Malaga, 1949) have explored very different paths that have led the artist to create a private universe that seeks to establish a balance between compositional and emotional tension.

The exhibition at CAC Málaga consists of a selection of ten works Durán produced between 1981 and 2001. The show will present a journey through the artist's work that spans twenty years, encompassing impossible architectural depictions, dream-like figures, childhood landscapes and symbols such as mirrors, masks and handcrafted glass, all combined with a certain sense of nostalgia and a search for the artist's personal roots.

The practice of painting and its relationship with reality, landscape and still-lifes are the three preoccupations around which Durán's work revolves. Through these themes the painter reflects upon the blurred boundaries between exterior and interior, reality and subjectivity, past and present, the world and its depiction.

The Durán exhibition is the first in a series of measures that CAC Málaga plans to carry out in order to highlight the valuable contribution Malagan artists have made within the field of contemporary art. David Delfín and Nono Bandera are currently preparing their contributions to this exhibition programme.

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