Carlos Tardez
Madrid, Spain
0 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Madrid
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Works by Carlos Tardez
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid.
He combines his pictorial work with the sculptural, in both cases there are mythological connotations that make the works are filled with double meanings and reinterpretations of scenes and objects. This fact is especially evident in his sculpture, where he uses a preconceived idea or an object associated with a meaning and turns it around. Mythology covered with irony. They are pieces usually of small format, molded in resin and polychrome, although there are also works executed in bronze.
On the canvas he tries to express the idea of the most direct possible way, his pictorial technique and the realism used are taken care of, generating simple and resounding compositions in which the emptiness acquires a meaning and in many cases carries the conceptual weight in a treatment of space who drinks directly from abstract painting. It is a symbolic figuration, with a series of resources that have been enriching its own iconography. The title of each one of the works suggests and reinforces the idea in many occasions, always leaving open the subjective interpretation of the spectator.
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”
- 2000Torre del Reloj, Noreña (Asturias)
- 2018 Medal of Honor XXXIII BMW Painting Prize
- 2017 XX National Prize for Painting of Villaviciosa
- 2017 XXXII BMW Painting Prize (Selection)
- 2014 XXIX BMW Painting Prize (Selection)
- 2013 XVIII BMW Painting Prize (Selection)
- 2011 Honorable Mention IberCaja Award 2012
- 2011 XXVII BMW Painting Prize (Selection)
- 2010 Medal of Honor XXV BMW Painting Prize.
- 2010 V Contest of Figurative Painting, Foundation of the Arts and Artists. (Preselection)
- 2009 X Torrelodones Contemporary Painting Contest (Casino Gran Madrid Acquisition Award).
- 2009 XXIV BMW Painting Prize, (Selection)
- 2009 IV Contest of Figurative Painting, Foundation of the Arts and Artists. (Selection)
- 2006 Saexma Award. II Small Format Painting Contest. (Selection)
- 2004 European Painting Contest "Antonio López 2004". (Selection)
- 2002 III Contemporary Painting Contest of Torrelodones (Acquisition Prize Casino Gran Madrid)
- 2001 Young Prize of Plastic Arts, Complutense University of Madrid
- 2001 II Contemporary Painting Contest of Torrelodones. (Selection)
- 2000 Prize of Plastic Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid (Acquisition)
- 2000 Valparaíso Foundation Painting Prize (Honorable Mention)