Carlos Pesudo

STATEMENT

Carlos Pesudo’s work provokes ambiguity and bewilderment. The artist uses elementary forms that run throughout his painting and that end up being reformulated and radicalised in his pictorial process. His plastic research has given way to a complexity of forms and registers. It is a gestural and expressive painting that develops through a process of action and containment.

In his studio, Carlos works from intuition, looking for the unexpected and disturbing form, as none of his paintings are based on a sketch or previous reference. For the artist, the painting is an unknown space that is created as it is being made. A process of invoking an image and a sensation not yet known.

The artist’s proposal of abstraction challenges the codes of representation. The ambiguity of his images provokes in the spectator a questioning of what is being seen. These scenes, dynamic and theatrical, which appear in his work, are strange and at the same time close. They show, almost involuntarily, his fascination for certain forms of nature, especially for those that seem more violent or illogical to him.

Therefore, in his plastic world, the relationship that underlies his painting and some indeterminate elements of the plant world, insects, arachnids or other vertebrates is unconsciously manifested.

CV

Carlos Pesudo (Castellón, Spain 1992)
Currently based in Madrid (Spain)

EducaTiOn

2016-2018 

· Master in Artistic Production. Fine Arts Faculty San Carlos (UPV), Valencia (Spain).

2018

· Fine Arts Faculty of Bahía (UFBA),Salvador de Bahia (Brasil).

2012-2016

· Fine Arts Faculty, (UPV) Fine Arts Faculty San Carlos, Valencia (Spain).

2014-2015

· The Hungarian University of Fine Arts - Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem (MKE), Budapest (Hungary).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

· El guateque, Yusto Giner Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2022

· Este cuadro me mira raro, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2021

· Zero space, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublín (Ireland).

· OVO, Yusto Giner Gallery, Marbella (Spain).

· It doesn’t belong to us, SomoS Arthouse, Berlin (Germany).

2020

· Espacio Cero, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2019

· ¿Quién pagará el pato?.  Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

· MARTE Contemporary Art Fair - Awarded as emerging artist - Premio Marte Castellón. Castellón (Spain).

2017

· Vanitas Vanitatum, PRÁM Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic).

GROUP SHOWS

2024

· La invitación (with artists: Michael Swaney, Guillermo Pfaff, Tracey Slater, Julia Santaolalla, Miguel Marina, Narowé, Eloy Arribas, Marie-Cécile Aptel, Max Kesterloot, Amaya Suberviola, Chiaohan Chueh, Julián Cruz, Maillo, and María Tinaut.) Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2023

· Zona Maco, Yusto Giner Gallery, Mexico City (México).

· Shoot speed / kill light (with artists: Cristina de Miguel, Austin Lee, Marria Prats, Mie Olise, Jana Schröder, Kotie Paloma, Renee Estee, Loren Erdrich, Eloy Arribas and Maillo), Herrero de Tejada Gallery in collaboration with Urvanity Art Fair, Madrid (Spain).

· Urvanity Art Fair, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

· Estampa Art Fair, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2022

· Feria Art Brussels, Filomena Soares Gallery, Brussels (Belgium).

· Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Yusto Giner Gallery, Abu Dhabi (UAE).

· Estampa Art Fair, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

· Urvanity Art Fair, Yusto Giner Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2021

· Estampa Art Fair, Yusto Giner Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

· Estampa Art Fair, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

· Estampa Art Fair (Postponed 2020 edition) Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2020

· JustMad Contemporary Art Fair, Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2019

· FIN (de la cuarta parte), Herrero de Tejada Gallery, Madrid (Spain).

2017

· Mapa y Cultura. Collblanc Espai d’Art Gallery. Culla (Spain).

2015

· Spaces of uncertainty, KRAKERS, Krakow (Poland).

AWARDS

2023

· Acquisition prize Kells Collection, Urvanity Art Fair, Madrid (Spain).

2020

· ​ Grant by the Foundation Davalos Fletcher. Castellón (Spain).

2019

· ​ MARTE Contemporary Art Fair - Awarded as emerging artist - Premio Marte Castellón.  Castellón (Spain).

· Beca Hàbitat Artístic Castelló, Diputación de Castellón (Spain).

2017

· ​ Honourable mention on a video-art projection, Biennal Ciutat Vella Oberta 2017. IVAM Lab. Valencia (Spain).

Residencias Artísticas

2022

· ​ Residencia Nautilus, Lanzarote (Spain).

2021

· ​ Somos, Berlín (Germany).

2019

· ​ Centre d’Art La Rectoría. Barcelona (Spain).

2017

· ​ PRÁM. Prague (Czeck Republic).

· ​ Culla Contemporánea, by Collblanc Espai d’Art Gallery, Castellón (Spain).

COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS

· Kells Collection.

· ​ John Márquez Foundation.

· ​ Papartus Collection.

· ​ Aldebarán Collection.

· ​ Casa de indias Collection.

· ​ Teresa Calvo collection.

· ​ Castellón City Museum (Spain).

· ​ Goverment of Castellón, Diputación de Castellón (Spain).