Alcoy, 1971-2015
Xavi Carbonell's works are like little dreams...
Understanding painting as a space for reflection and experimentation has been one of the keys that has marked Xavi Carbonell's career. From his first exhibitions in the mid-nineties to his latest works in New York, the artist has known how to construct his own plastic language, complex in its process and transparent in its resolution, endowed with a glossary of particularities aimed at purifying the image.
Xavi Carbonell was born in Alcoy in 1971. It is here that he currently resides, but he carries out his production between Alcoy and New York.
His passion for Art and an imperative need to express his feelings in a plastic way, led him to start in the world of painting more than two decades ago. His main influences have not only come from the hand of established artists such as Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Saura and others of Abstract Expressionism, but also from the scribbles outlined by the younger ones. His work shows his interest in Children's Art, not only from a formal point of view - where the iconographic elements are sketched with lines that seem to come from the hand of a child - but also in the choice of themes. Through his works he invites us to enter into his particular universe, a universe that without realizing it, we will try to make our own.
His work has been seen in different galleries, museums and art centres. Arteinversión, Carmen de la Guerra (Madrid), THEMA (Valencia), el CADA (Alcoy), are some examples. He has also been present at numerous International Fairs, highlighting Dubai, Antwerp and Affordable in New York, in the latter represented by the New Yorker Art Angler, gallery that represents him in the USA since 2012.
