FERNANDO VICENTE

Fernando Vicentes art dissects vanity, mans struggle with mortality, and the concept of the body as a lie. It is the flawed natu re of humanity that makes one beautiful, yet we are trained to strive for the banality of perfection. In response, Vicente splices t he leftovers of visual culture, creating intricate, sensual and haunting montages that make the strange out of the common. In his fo ur influential series of paintings, Anatomi´as, Atlas, Vanitas, and Venus, the artist plays with mechanics, geography, media and sci ence to tran...[Read more]