Agustín Martín Francés (Madrid, 1959) is a graphic designer and photographer. Doctor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid since 1992.
Professor of Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He lectures on photography, design and digital art. He has carried out graphic and space design projects for different companies and has given numerous conferences on photography, design and digital art, although his artistic career has always focused on the photographic image, exhibiting inside and outside our borders.
He was president of El Caballito, an association for the promotion of author photography and has been Coordinator of the Degree in Design at the UCM, Director of the Official Master's Degree in Design at the UCM and Director of the Department of Design and Image at the UCM.
Fantasy World
Photography is usually considered a minor art, although it floods art fairs. After its appearance in the XNUMXth century, the fideThe quality of the image it provides brought with it the emergence of the artistic avant-garde, which sought to transcend realism in painting. However, the ability to collect in an instant the trace of an unrepeatable event, and always from a single personal point of view, has determined the consideration of this artistic, technical, mechanical method, devised in the way of looking at the human and at the same time cold and diligent. Photography has thus found an identity niche by which it is recognized as an authentic document or as art.
However, there have always been mestizo artists. David Hockney made cubism using polaroids, Francis Bacon photographed himself in photo booths and Salvador Dalí collaborated with Man Ray, Brassaï, Cecil Beaton or Philippe Halsman. Long before, Caravaggio himself used the camera obscura, a photographic device, to create his magnificent paintings. On the other hand, there are also innumerable crossbreeds, such as those of Joel-Peter Witkin or Lucas Samaras, who have not hesitated to work on the support of the photographic image. In this way the cold realism of a photograph is converted into warm expression, tactile matter and volcanic passion.
Images Fantasy World they are indebted to these magnificent precedents, they inquire into expression, matter, mystery, surrealism and passion. Reality always raises an existential doubt, it only shows us what we do not feel. However, we sense that there is something behind that appearance, something alive that must be discovered. That is why these images rescue and show the looming reality, interpreting it without adding anything, just playing to wake it up, like blowing on a sleeping angel. Fantasy World it is a pop world, fantastic, mysterious and expressionist. It reflects what can be even though it may not seem like it, the freedom of form, the expression of the inanimate.
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