04/03/07

The hotel Eurostars Ciudad de la Coruña presents a show of works by Oscar Carballo (Buenos Aires, Argentina), through to next23 April.  Carballo brings together various different styles in each of his works, since he affirms that he does not want to typecast himself and that mixed techniques endow a refreshing touch of nuances, but he does admit that expressionism is a constant theme in his career.

A graduate in Architecture, he later studied draughtsmanship and painting in the M.E.E.B.A. Art School (Mutual de Egresados y Estudiantes de Bellas Artes). From that time onwards, he began to participate in collective art shows while receiving various educational grants that led him to being taught by various famous professors. He presented his first individual exhibition in the Laurenciana Art Gallery in 1986 and, since then has not ceased to work professionally in the art world, be it as a designer for important theatrical projects such as En el Andén (On the Platform) or El rey se muere (The King is Dying), or exhibiting in galleries, showrooms and art centres. During the ‘nineties, he focused on theatre design under the orders of theatre director, Guillermo Flores.
 
From 2001, he resides and works in Corunna where, in addition to decorating well-known cafés and meeting places for cultural events, he has displayed his most recent work this year in two individual exhibitions in the BOMOB Gallery in Vigo and in the Lucía Torres Gallery in Corunna. Together with other well-known writers from Galicia, he collaborated last summer with the publishing house, Formatos, as supporting illustrations expert for the publishing of the book, Los latidos del pan (heartbeats of bread), by the poet, David Castro and the photographer, Alex del Río. This latter work by Carballo brought him good critiques and with regard to his peculiar fusion of disciplines, his production was described as being a worthy of a Dadaist collage maestro and, at the same time, that of the strictest of Renaissance draughtsmen.