CARLOS NICANOR
GRAN CANARIA, 1974
He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna and began exhibiting his work in 2002. His works have been selected for exhibitions in both Las Palmas and Tenerife, winning first prizes such as the Excellens for sculpture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel (2011) or the First Prize Manolo Millares CajaCanarias (2009). In 2006 he held his first solo exhibition, entitled Buscador de nortes, in which under the motto “where everything is done and everything is to be done” he presented a collection of veiled tributes to some of the sculptors he admires, Brancusi and Giacometti among others. He currently works with galleries in Miami, Madrid, Lisbon and Tenerife.
His exhibitions include Antinatura/Sinbiología (Galería Artizar 2010-2012), and Osmosis. Blancas + Nicanor (TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2015), as well as his participation in the XII Havana Biennial as part of the project Detrás del Muro, with the installation Lemon Way, in which he built a path of yellow wooden tiles that crossed the Malecón to die in the Caribbean, on its way to Florida. Also the individual works Dile a Caronte que le traigo flores in 2020 at the Fundación CajaCanarias in Tenerife and De la carne al hueso, del hueso al alma in 2023 at the CAAM in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Nicanor is a Brossanian sculptor. It is enough to see some of his latest works to understand that his creativity aspires to give form to a work that will be a caustic alteration of the object and its meaning, always proposing a new and unusual one, and that such work postulates in many cases a Dadaist position that brings him close to Arp and Duchamp. Carlos Nicanor’s sculptural intensity is poetic in nature. Perhaps that is why his work seems so comfortable and rigorously expressive when he makes his own the legacy of the avant-garde, especially Dadaism, and its ability to make self-sufficient objects, closed entities with which a cultural key is essential to communicate. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)