I Looked Like A Model

Manuel Solano

I Looked Like A Model, 201497.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
acrylic on paperCarlos/Ishikawa
Description
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This artwork consists of two framed text-based pieces displayed side by side. The visual elements feature a raw, unfinished quality with handwritten text in bold blue lettering against a neutral beige background. The subject matter conveys a subtly confrontational message, with one piece stating "I've been told that I looked like a model" and the other reading "more than you know." The artistic style has a raw, expressive quality, utilizing handwritten text as the primary medium to communicate a layered, introspective message. The context suggests the artist is exploring themes of identity, perception, and self-awareness through this conceptual work. ...

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Manuel Solano
Artist
Manuel Solano
B.1987, Mexican

Manuel Solano is a multimedia artist who cross pollinates sensorial experiences of the natural world with pop culture references across video, painting, and performance. Muddying the supposedly separate arenas of palaeontology, queerness and ‘low brow’ culture, Solano troubles the hierarchy of ‘worthy’ subject matters. Portraits of Iggy Pop or Twiggy might sit in conversation with paintings of family members, or tongue and cheek scenes of dinosaurs flamboyantly dancing. Solano lost their sight in 2014 due to an AIDS related illness. At this point in their career they began to focus more exclusively on their figurative painting practice, drawing from memory, dreams, books, or films.Relying heavily on touch, Solano works with three studio assistants in Berlin. They sketch scenes Solano communicates to them and once a drawing has been approved by Solano who traces the pencil marks on paper, this sketch is then mapped onto canvas and marked out with pipe cleaners. Solano then paints with their hands, swapping fingertips and the curvature of their palms for brushes. This bodily relationship to the works gives each piece an immense sense of intimacy. Simultaneously traversing interior and exterior worlds, Solano continues to make work which expresses both the intricate development of the self, whilst curtly examining the peculiarities and biases which shape contemporary culture. ...

Manuel Solano: Artworks
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Manuel SolanoBombi, 2014Price on Request
Robin Wright or A Beautiful Thin Actress
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Life on Mars 2
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Flamingos 1
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Dancing in the Desert
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T-Rex
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Oviraptor 1
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Twiggy or Oviraptor 2
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Cranes 2
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Dinosauroid
Manuel SolanoDinosauroid, 2022Price on Request
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Diamond Dogs
Manuel SolanoDiamond Dogs, 2021Price on Request
Nails
Manuel SolanoNails, 2022Price on Request
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Manuel SolanoSally, 202445000 USD
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Carlos/Ishikawa
Gallery
Carlos/Ishikawa
London

Founded in 2011, Carlos/Ishikawa’s program is dedicated to considered and ambitious exhibitions that offer diverse artists’ perspectives on structural, socio-cultural, and political questions. The program focuses on international artists with often wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary and experimental practices. There is an interest within the program of challenging the aesthetic conventions of conceptual art, and a focus on art that is able to operate on an affective, emotional level as well as a rigorous intellectual one. The gallery has offered many artists their first solo show, many of whom have gone on to receive recognition internationally. ...