Fernando Canovas

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Currently lives and works in New York and Spain

Fernando Canovas was born in 1960 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to Paris in 1983 and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, under the direction of Pierre Alechinsky.
His work has been exhibited at many institutions, to name a few: Museo Memorial de America Latina de Sao Paolo, Brazil; Museo de la Ciudad, Valencia, Spain; andMaison de la Culture de Namur, Belgium.

His paintings are distinguished for the peculiar use of space and perspective. He creates images that look almost three dimensional. The idea of labyrinths is present in his work. Sometimes these are explicitly created by the juxtaposition of several levels in the same image and others by grids with lines of different thickness. These remind us of architectural drawings for buildings. He also did a series of works in which he incorporated objects to the paintings, reinforcing the idea of several dimensions in the same plane. The pieces seem to be carefully calculated in its execution, with a technical consideration. Later on, he created a series of paintings which visually refer to a more chaotic view of the world, giving room to spontaneity and the unexpected.