I Looked Like A Model

Manuel Solano

I Looked Like A Model, 201497.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cmSign in to view price
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acrylic on paperCarlos/Ishikawa
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

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
I Looked Like A Model
Manuel Solano
I Looked Like A Model, 2014
97.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cm
Please Send Help
Manuel Solano
Please Send Help, 2014
97.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cm
Welcome To Jurassic Park
Manuel Solano
Welcome To Jurassic Park, 2014
97.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cm
Lady Stark
Manuel Solano
Lady Stark, 2014
97.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cm
Bombi
Manuel Solano
Bombi, 2014
97.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cm
Robin Wright or A Beautiful Thin Actress
Manuel Solano
Robin Wright or A Beautiful Thin Actress, 2014
97.3 x 67.3 x 3.5cm
Life on Mars 2
Manuel Solano
Life on Mars 2, 2021
159 x 121 x 5cm
Siouxsie
Manuel Solano
Siouxsie, 2021
163 x 122 x 5cm
Flamingos 2
Manuel Solano
Flamingos 2, 2022
161 x 122 x 5cm
Flamingos 1
Manuel Solano
Flamingos 1, 2022
161 x 124 x 5cm
Dancing in the Desert
Manuel Solano
Dancing in the Desert, 2021
171 x 225 x 5cm
T-Rex
Manuel Solano
T-Rex, 2021
162 x 121 x 5cm
Oviraptor 1
Manuel Solano
Oviraptor 1, 2022
162 x 164 x 5cm
Twiggy or Oviraptor 2
Manuel Solano
Twiggy or Oviraptor 2, 2022
163 x 163 x 5cm
Cranes 2
Manuel Solano
Cranes 2, 2021
161 x 121 x 5cm
Dinosauroid
Manuel Solano
Dinosauroid, 2022
226 x 161 x 5cm
Leaellynasaurae
Manuel Solano
Leaellynasaurae, 2022
177 x 227 x 5cm
Diamond Dogs
Manuel Solano
Diamond Dogs, 2021
173 x 233 x 5cm
Nails
Manuel Solano
Nails, 2022
39 x 29.5 x 3.5cm
Sally
Tomb Raider (Black) or Functional Leather 2
Manuel Solano
Tomb Raider (Black) or Functional Leather 2, 2024
157 x 203 x 5cm
If You Need My Attention 2
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If You Need My Attention 2, 2024
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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. ...

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