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 in biennial exhibitions both in Las Palmas and Tenerife, deserving first prizes such as the Excellens of sculpture of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel (2011) or the First Prize Manolo Millares CajaCanarias (2009). In 2006 he made his first solo exhibition, entitled Buscador de nortes, in which under the slogan “where everything is done and everything to do” he would present a collection of veiled tributes to some of the sculptors he admires, Brancusi and Giacometti among others.
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 within the project Detrás del Muro, with the installation Lemon Way, in which he built a path of yellow wooden tiles that crossed the Malecon to die in the Caribbean, heading to Florida.
Nicanor is a Brossanian sculptor. It is enough to see some of his latest works to understand that his creativity aspires to give shape 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 closer 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.