Carlos Tárdez

1976, Madrid (Spain)

Work...

He combines his pictorial work with his sculptures, in both cases there are mythological connotations that make the works fill with double meanings and reinterpretations of scenes and objects. This fact becomes especially evident in his sculpture, where he uses a preconceived idea or object associated with meaning and turns it on its head. Mythology covered in irony. They are generally small-format pieces, modeled in resin and polychrome, although there are also works executed in bronze.

On the canvas he tries to express the idea in the most direct way possible, his pictorial technique and the realism used are careful, generating simple and emphatic compositions in which the void acquires meaning and in many cases carries the conceptual weight in a treatment of space. that drinks directly from abstract painting. It is a symbolic figuration, with a series of resources that have been enriching his own iconography. The title of each of the works suggests and reinforces the idea on many occasions, always leaving open the subjective interpretation of the viewer.

About Carlos Tárdez

Carlos Tardez is a Spanish artist who graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid.

He works with both sculpture and painting, and introduces mythological references in his works, so that they have double meanings and metaphors, and sometimes ironies.

His works on canvas are hyperrealistic in style, with simple compositions, in which the background takes on a conceptual meaning, with a depiction of space inspired by abstraction.

His art can be classified as symbolic figuration, in which he has created his own iconography, with symbols and elements to whom he attributes a unique and personal meaning.

On many occasions, the title of his works suggests some interpretation, although Tardez always tries to leave the work open to the viewer's subjective understanding.

Artistic resume and press

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019 Galería Ansorena, Madrid. “Mitología de interior”
  • 2018 Galería Bea Villamarín, Gijón. “Hazañas Bélicas”
  • 2016 Galería Bea Villamarín, Gijón. “Mi Familia y otros animales”
  • 2015 Galería Perve, Lisboa
  • 2015 Galería Bea Villamarín. Gijón. “Momento de Presentaciones”
  • 2012 Sala de Arte Van Dyck, Gijón. “Vacíos Llenos”
  • 2012 Centro de Arte Museo de Almería, Almería. “Zoo Lógico”
  • 2009 Galería Alfama, Madrid
  • 2009 Sala de Arte Van Dyck, Gijón. “Zoo lógico”
  • 2008 Galería Clave, Córdoba
  • 2008 Galería Orfila, Madrid. “Anima L”
  • 2007 Galería Campos, Zaragoza. “Bestiario”
  • 2006 Sala de Arte Van Dyck, Gijón. “Sentimientos”
  • 2004 Centro Asturiano de Oviedo. “Antropología Animal”
  • 2004 Club de Campo de Torrelodones. “Ataduras”
  • 2002 Casa de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Torrelodones, “Antropología Animal”
  • 2000 Torre del Reloj, Noreña (Asturias)

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