Edgar Plans

EDGAR PLANS (Madrid, 1977).
"Human Domator", 2007.
Mixed media on canvas and wood.
Signed in the lower right corner. Titled in the central area.
Measurements: 114 x 100 cm.
Edgar Plans' palette, together with his broken and impetuous stroke, brims with naïff freshness and the imprint of New York graffiti. His paintings are spontaneous and colorful, simple in stroke but deep in the imprint they leave in our memory, rescuing from our memories shared scenes of our childhood. In this work the author shows us a schematic protagonist on "a blue horse", perhaps in allusion to the mythical expressionist group the blue rider, founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. A remarkable fact is that Plans sketches on the face of the protagonist a mask that reproduces the face of an equine, thus creating a visual metaphor around the role of each of the characters in the painting.
This is a painter who enjoys great success in international events and in the art market, being one of the most sought-after young artists. According to the words of the artist himself: "Even as a child I have engraved in my memory the cocking of the keys of my father's typewriter (Juan José Plans, 1943-2014). In his studio he had a low table with seats, four of them, and around it, while he was writing I remember drawing with my brothers." His academic training began at the age of 15 when he began studying at the studio of artist José María Ramos. Two years later, Plans, he opened his own studio, which had in turn been the studio of the artist Nicanor Piñole. Throughout his career he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Art Notes 019, Ainori Gallery, Lisbon, Wall Art Notes, Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, ArtWynwood. Casa Cuadrada Gallery, Art Paris Art Fair. Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Art New York. Cuadrada Gallery, Busan, Korea. Pigment Gallery in collaboration with Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Kiaf Art Fair. Pigment Gallery in collaboration with Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Art Taipei, Ting Ting art Space, London Art Fair. Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Juxtapoz magazine selection, Tales of art Gallery, Imola, Italy, Kiaf Art Fair. Pigment Gallery in collaboration with Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Art Miami. Miquel Alzueta Gallery. Currently his work is in numerous collections of great artistic relevance of particular character, and in relevant institutions such as; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Havana, Cuba, the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, the Pinacoteca Eduardo Úrculo, the Illuro Foundation, Masters of Contemporary Art, the Laboral, Contemporary Art Center, La Caixa Foundation, the Cristina Peterson Foundation, the Masaveu Foundation, and the Board of the government of the Principality of Asturias, among many others.