Kategorie: FÉLIX CURTO

Félix Curto (1967, Salamanca, Spain) works and lives between Spain and Mexico. In Curto's photographs, the idea of travel is analysed both on the physical and on the imaginary perspective: motels, old cars, highways and landscapes are all recurring motifs in his work. His photographs, not only conveys artist's physical journeys, but also the journeys that take place within himself. 

On this journey, travel and life on the road are the most obvious themes, but beat poetry and American music from the fifties and sixties are also present. Curto generally contemplates the world as if he were the visitor of a single day after the catastrophe, as in this series of photographs. He looks at the space around him in attentive, intense listening, this obstinate collector of fragments of times and places. Often immersed in the beautiful harmony of the series, the variation of the images, some of which can be considered ineffable like "Carros" (1996), "Desert recordings" (2005-2006) or "Heart of gold" (2008). His images - considered as albums of his personal passions - are subjected to variation in the knowledge that this is one of the tensions of the art of our time, as if waiting to conclude cycles that at the time capture the attention.