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Someone said that the image of the end of the twentieth century, the one that would allow us to sum up all the domination and slavery that there was, would be that of the man with the broken wrist; a figure like that of Rodin's thinker, with the fixed sight on the left wrist, where theoretically he would wear the watch. Jean Buadrillard proposed the image of a man seated and looking, one day on strike, at the empty screen of his television. Will it be this image, the one that will synthesize all the anthropology of this time? The work of Francesc Daranas also has this leveling vocation. The first astonishing thing is the technical precision and the chromatic play. Each painting is an enhancement, an editorial. A search for the moment, almost cinematographic, which can sum up an era, a feeling, a time. His works are a thinking about the individual, this being who emphasizes the image he has of himself. This lonely, faceless being in which gestures, taking part in the empire of aesthetics, the attitude that photographs doubt, a Cartesian doubt that wants to escape skepticism, that wants to believe and wait, are what matters. without dramatizing but ironically. What these drawings of urban landscapes or baroque interiors with characters show is a reflection on the identity of the single man who lives in a society where values are fragmented, where each fragment shines at times in a simulation sky then it disappears. Daranas shows us that everything has become aesthetic and the reference is no longer the other, if not oneself. Self-sufficient self-satisfaction. You don't have to look, just see yourself. Daranas teaches us to see what has already been seen and which has remained as images of unconsciousness, but while winking at the intelligent viewer and he invites them to overcome decadence and nihilism. Daranas proves by examples what Lipovestly claims for contemporary society: the awareness of aesthetic immersion, the value of detail and the brilliance of what is ephemeral. Ferran Teixidor Professor of philosophy.
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Who is the artist?

Someone said that the image of the end of the twentieth century, the one that would allow us to sum up all the domination and slavery that there was, would be that of the man with the broken wrist; a figure like that of Rodin's thinker, with the fixed sight on the left wrist, where theoretically he would wear the watch. Jean Buadrillard proposed the image of a man seated and looking, one day on strike, at the empty screen of his television. Will it be this image, the one that will synthesize all the anthropology of this time? The work of Francesc Daranas also has this leveling vocation. The first astonishing thing is the technical precision and the chromatic play. Each painting is an enhancement, an editorial. A search for the moment, almost cinematographic, which can sum up an era, a feeling, a time. His works are a thinking about the individual, this being who emphasizes the image he has of himself. This lonely, faceless being in which gestures, taking part in the empire of aesthetics, the attitude that photographs doubt, a Cartesian doubt that wants to escape skepticism, that wants to believe and wait, are what matters. without dramatizing but ironically. What these drawings of urban landscapes or baroque interiors with characters show is a reflection on the identity of the single man who lives in a society where values are fragmented, where each fragment shines at times in a simulation sky then it disappears. Daranas shows us that everything has become aesthetic and the reference is no longer the other, if not oneself. Self-sufficient self-satisfaction. You don't have to look, just see yourself. Daranas teaches us to see what has already been seen and which has remained as images of unconsciousness, but while winking at the intelligent viewer and he invites them to overcome decadence and nihilism. Daranas proves by examples what Lipovestly claims for contemporary society: the awareness of aesthetic immersion, the value of detail and the brilliance of what is ephemeral. Ferran Teixidor Professor of philosophy.

When was Francesc Daranas born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1960