Lab #11 and #7 Diptych. From the Lab series, 2024

Alec Franco  

The work explores the interconnection between organic nature and circuits, reflecting the relationships between human beings. On the canvas, organic shapes are displayed that evoke biological structures, such as cells or fluids, intertwined with patterns of circuits and connections. Contrasting colors are used to represent the tension between the natural and the artificial. Areas of color flow and merge, creating a sense of movement and energy, while the geometric lines of the circuits add structure that contrasts with the softness of the organic shapes. The work not only seeks to be visually striking, but also an invitation to contemplate our place in the modern ecosystem, where the organic and the artificial coexist and intertwine. Franco's work plays between the limit and the no limit, imagining the idea of macro universes and micro cosmos, combining them in the same space, mixing, separating and uniting dimensions. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction sometimes with expressionist and many other surreal overtones, where his work expands in various formats and supports (acrylics, oils, pastels, charcoal, asphalt paint, synthetic enamel, on canvas, paper, wood and steel) transiting mixed materialities that overlap, crushing the apparent figures against heterogeneous backgrounds. Franco's work plays between the limit and the no limit, imagining the idea of macro universes and micro cosmos, combining them in the same space, mixing, separating and uniting dimensions.