Ivan Franco

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Ourense, Spain, 1979

AWARDS
II International Portrait Competition Mod-Portrait, (Honor mention), Exhibitions center Bantierra, Zaragoza, Spain (2017/ 2015/2014)
Maria Josepa Giner, (Bursary award) Anquin’s Gallery, Reus, Spain (2012)
XI Photography award University of Murcia, (First Honor mention), University of Murcia, Spain (2011)
Becas Roberto Villagraz, Escuela de fotografía EFTI, Madrid, Spain (2011)
XXVII Painting Competition Concello de Cambre, A Coruña, Spain (2010)
III Figurative Painting and Sculpture Competition, Foundation Fundació de les Arts i els artistas, Barcelona, Spain (2008)
VII Regional Photography Award Caja de Ahorros de Canarias, (First Prize), Foundation OBS Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (2008)
I Figurative Painting Competition, Barcelona, Spain (2006)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
H0. Piramidón Centre d’Art Contemporani. Barcelona, Spain (2018)
Contact Sheet, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2017)
True and False, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2015)
Ideografías, Portal 48 Gallery, Pontevedra. Spain (2014)
Significantes Simulados, Art Gallery Puerto de la Cruz, Caja Canarias, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain (2009)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Realismo Español Contemporáneo, Hoki Museum, Japan (2019)
20th Anniversay, Galerie Arcturus, Paris (2019)
Booth Alb, Galeria Alb, Paris (2019)
Un face à face espagnol. Miguel Macaya – Ivan Franco, Galerie Arcturus, Paris (2017)
A Dessein, Galerie Binôme, Paris (2016)
Realitats, Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2016)

ART FAIRS
Art Miami, Art Paris, Art Madrid, Art Élysées

About

The image (sign) presented is not focused on representing the real, true, false or imaginary. This image seeks to give greater prominence, if anything, to the meaning from the simulacrum. Matter-picture as object becomes, in this case, an importance that exceeds what is told (sign), as part of the object, subject it to the importance of proper sense, the simulacrum.

It’s no longer to identify the real from what is not, but to use the strategies, the mechanisms of reality to question own existence. The picture presented is not able to be true in another place like a simulacrum. As Baudrillard quoted in “Culture and Simulation” in reference to the simulacrum of divinity: “This is precisely what was feared by Iconoclasts, whose millennial quarrel is still with us today. This is precisely because they predicted this omnipotence of simulacra, the faculty simulacra have of effacing God from the conscience of man, and the destructive, annihilating truth that they allow to appear – that deep down God never existed, that only the simulacrum ever existed, even that God himself was never anything but his own simulacrum” This works refers essentially to a question of contemplation, that explores the need to identify and understand the reality. If the recognition of the simulacrum has made stagger the survival of the reality.

“The simulacrum is never what hides the truth – it is truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”

Ecclesiastes