Nicanor is a Brossanian sculptor. Carlos Nicanor’s sculptural intensity is poetic in nature. Perhaps that is why his work seems so comfortable and rigorously expressive when he makes his own the legacy of the avant-garde, especially Dadaism, and its ability to make self-sufficient objects, closed entities with which a cultural key is essential to communicate.
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Carlos NicanorCarnal, 2023Wood, thread, leather and iron110 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
280 x 40 x 40 cmView more details -
Carlos NicanorDevenir, 2023waxed thread, wood and metal90 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 15 3/4 in
229.9 x 80 x 40 cmView more details -
Carlos NicanorLa hermosa, 2023wood and nails10 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 3 1/8 in
26 x 24.1 x 7.9 cmView more details
His works have been selected in biennial exhibitions both in Las Palmas and Tenerife, deserving first prizes such as the Excellens of sculpture of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Miguel Arcángel (2011) or the First Prize Manolo Millares CajaCanarias (2009).
He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna and began exhibiting his work in 2002. In 2006 he made his first solo exhibition, entitled Buscador de nortes, in which under the slogan “where everything is done and everything to do” he would present a collection of veiled tributes to some of the sculptors he admires, Brancusi and Giacometti among others.
His exhibitions include Antinatura/Sinbiología (Galería Artizar 2010-2012), and Osmosis. Blancas + Nicanor (TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2015), as well as their participation in the XII Havana Biennial within the Detrás del Muro project, with the installation Lemon Way, in which he built a path of yellow wooden tiles that crossed the Malecón to die in the Caribbean, heading to Florida.
During 2016 and 2017 he developed the Neomismos project, which is made up of two individual exhibitions at the Twin Gallery (Madrid) and the Artizar Gallery, which concludes with an installation presented by Carlos Delgado Mayordomo titled The Truth of Madame Sifira. In 2020, just after the confinements, he carried out his most ambitious project to date at the Cajacanarias Foundation. Curated by Omar-Pascual Castillo and titled Tell Charon that I bring him flowers, the exhibition was a poetic and sincere reflection on the journey of life and the omnipresence of death.
In 2023, he carried out the project From the flesh to the bone, from the bone to the soul, curated by Dennys Matos, at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), in which Nicanor presented us with a kind of fictitious autopsy of the artist himself in an exercise of deconstruction of the self.
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