Asimetrias #5, 2026

Alec Franco  

A vibrant dialogue between structure and chaos. This 2026 artwork merges oil, acrylic, and mixed media into a singular expressive force. Bold lines intersect with organic shapes. Deep crimson and ochre tones clash against a serene, pale blue background. The composition feels suspended. It breathes through a tension of opposites. 
The artist draws from a rich background in graphic design and abstract expressionism. Every stroke reveals a precise yet intuitive hand. Dark, calligraphic contours weave through the center. They create a visual puzzle of overlapping planes. These elements suggest a mental map or a complex internal architecture. 
The use of mixed media adds tactile depth to the surface. Thin washes of color contrast with dense, opaque applications. This layering creates a sense of movement and depth. The eye wanders through the winding paths of the composition. It discovers hidden intersections and sudden bursts of warmth. The piece concludes with a delicate, sweeping orange line that anchors the floating central mass to the ethereal space around it.

Asymmetries explores the capacity of emptiness to produce meaning. Painting is no longer understood as an accumulation of matter but begins to function as an economy of decisions, where each gesture acquires intensity precisely because there is a vast surface that chooses to remain silent. Organic forms do not represent objects; they function as events. They burst forth, condense, and then seem to dissolve within a space that never attempts to become complete. The work suggests that balance is not a geometric condition but a perceptual experience: what appears unbalanced finds stability thanks to the relationship between density and emptiness, between expansion and restraint, between presence and absence.

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.