Carlos Sanchez Alonso

Biography :

Carlos Sanchez Alonso was born in Spain in 1963.

In 1989 he graduated from the BBAA, University of Madrid.

Professor of form analysis in architecture at the Alfonso X El Sabio University (Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid).

Professor of expression and representation techniques at the interior architecture courses of the department of construction of the Polytechnic University of Madrid;

Carlos Sanchez today focuses exclusively on his work as an artist-sculptor.

He has done more than twenty-three solo shows, has participated in numerous collective exhibitions and has received various prizes and scholarships for his work. He has also exhibited internationally through various art fairs: London, Brussels, Miami, New York, Madrid.

He recycles materials such as wood, paper, metal, books to sublimate them into works of art with a singular architecture.

Artistic statement :

The work of Carlos Sanchez Alonso expresses a real aptitude at transposing the outcome of his research in a plastic way. Thus, each work represents a challenge in itself, articulated around the architectonic theme of the form-space.

In each sculpture, rationality and intuition enter a dialogue, adding to the exploration of volumes and transparencies, to the expansion of bodies in space, and to the impact of their opposition or association.

Each work finds its own raison d'être.

As a result, his concern for tectonics and overlays require the onlooker to consider each sculpture from various angles and points of view. His work is readable at 360 °.

Unequivocally, the works seem imbued with the artist's experience of architecture and the teachings he took from it. Carlos Sanchez Alonso's professional experience, far from contradicting his career as a sculptor, succeeds at integrating a harmonious synthesis of major significance for the whole of his work.

« Above all, there is an indisputable desire to restore freedom to words as well as to his works.

Carlos Sanchez Alonso's work method is in direct contact with the sensation, the gesture, the deregulation of all the senses.

Dissolving the author to leave only the work is necessary. The dissolution of the author first involves assembling, cutting, scrambling, gluing, welding…

To succeed in erasing any, let's say, “habitually associated with art" preconception, the multiple interventions cover, all over their surfaces, the colors, the traces, the shapes and the montages well defined by the artist. "The sensation received is of condensation and consistency, as well as force. Magic will transform his art, the same way it has turned his life upside down. ".

Georges Benero – Florida

Curator / Art critic