Materia Gris | Grey Matter
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Sala Matta
Solo exhibition
Santiago, May - Aug. 2023

50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

1973: A year in Art
Tate Modern
London, 25 Nov , 2019 - 18 Oct. 2020

1973: A year in Art
Tate Modern
London, 25 Nov , 2019 - 18 Oct. 2020

Ayer y Hoy is now part of Tate Modern Collection

The acquisition was made possible thanks to the donation of Juan Yarur and Fundación Ama.

Benditas Ruinas
Solo Exhibition
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, 2019

How it is Romy

A Late Evening in the future

2019
Acrylic paint, acrylic resin, pigment ink,
muriatic acid on aluminum mounted on paper
220 x 152 cm. each.
Collection Il Posto, Santiago

La Sábana
2017

Primeras Letras
Exhibition Views
LIMAC, 2017

MHN 0319 / Detalle

Treated like Flowers

2014
Pigment ink and acrylic resins on paper
6 parts, 220 x 152 cm. each
Colección Fundación Engel, Santiago.

Resistance Performed
Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive
Regimes in Latin America

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Zürich 2015

Tierra sin Pan

2015
Pigment ink transfer on wall, Laser cut inscriptions on wood blocks, plastic grapes, offset prints, archival pigment prints, plastic rope, paper, wood and acrylic display cases
2 parts, each, 170 x 100 x 85 cm.

NN

2015
Bull horn with text inscription | Cacho de toro con inscripción de texto
13,4 x 7 x 3 Inches
34 x 18 x 7 cm

NN

2015
Molar humano cortado | cut out human molar
13,4 x 7 x 3 Inches
34 x 18 x 7 cm

NN (Carretera del Sol )

2015
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag cotton paper
Framed 37,4 x 25,6 Inches

EYES
2014
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago

Circa

2014
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal
Solo Exhibition

Film Noir

Pigment ink on polyethinel film
Variable dimensions.
Installation views, Gasworks, 2013

GÉNERO NEGRO
Trienal de Chile.

Museo de arte contemporáneo de Santiago

FILMS

2005 - 2015

La Imagen y su doble
Video still

Una fiesta extraña y bárbara (parte I)

2015

 MONOGRAPHS

MATERIA GRIS |
GRAY MATTER

* Upcoming 2024
English - Spanish | 104 pp
Softcover with plastic lining
19,5 x 28 cm
With: Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, Ariel Florencia Richards, Ana María Risco

Publisher: Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio.
ISBN: TBA

MATERIA GRIS
Spanish | 48 pages
Softcover
21.5 x 14 cm
With: Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela
Publisher:
©Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago

X, Y, Z
2013
English - Spanish | 140 pages
Softcover with dust jacket
24 x 17 cm
With Eugenio Dittborn & Fernando Castro
Published by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
ISBN: 978-956-8890-18-6

LA SÁBANA | THE SHEET
2018
English - Spanish | 24 pages
Softcover with fold - out pages.
20 x 20 cm
With Ana María Risco, Oriana Bernasconi, Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, Manuel Guerrero Antequera, Manuel Gárate Chateau, María Teresa Johansson
Published by Tecnologías Políticas de la Memoria, UAI.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

During the last decade Nicolás Franco's work has revolved around the idea of painting. Often eluding the very practice of painting, Franco has examined its components, its physical identity, its language and its history. Formally, his work consists mainly of producing singular images from what has already been seen. The images, taken from sources as diverse as anthropology or the popular press, are subjected to experimental protocols in order to be returned, altered, to their existence. At times, the works adopt the precise forms of editorial design; at others, the result is reminiscent of the most radical abstract expressionism. As stated in the technical operations Franco has developed and established, one could say that the subject of his work is ultimately the very process of its creation.

Franco was born in 1973 in Santiago, Chile where he currently lives and works. He received a BFA in Art from UCM, Madrid and been the recipient of numerous awards including the AMA Gasworks Grant (London, 2013); De Ateliers, Mondrian Foundation and Ministry of Culture and Science of the Netherlands (Amsterdam 1999-2000); The Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant (New York, 2001- 2010), EFG Bank ArtNexus (Ch.ACO, 2012), Tecnologías Políticas de la Memoria (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, CL - University of Oxford, UK). Fondo Nacional de la Cultura (Santiago 2021, 2020, 2015, 20008). Franco's work has been exhibited at Tate Modern (London), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich), MEIAC (Badajoz), Cromwell Place (London), Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki CZASU (Torun), Sala Alcalá 31 (Madrid), Centro de Arte La Conservera (Murcia), Stroom Den Haag (The Hague), LIMAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Museo Blanes (Montevideo), Museo del Barro (Asunción), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, Museo de Artes Visuales de Santiago. His work is present in the collections of Tate Modern (London), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago), Museo de Artes Visuales (Santiago), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Znaki Czasu (Poland), Colección Eduardo Hochschild (Lima), Colección Leticia y Stanislas Poniatowski (Paris), Colección Larivier (Buenos Aires); Colección Il Posto (Santiago), Fundación AMA, Santiago.

Nicolas Franco Studio

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Chile

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