Ceesepe

"CEESEPE"; CARLOS SÁNCHEZ PÉREZ (Madrid, 1958-2018).
Untitled, 1986.
Gouache on cardboard.
Presents on the back stamp of the Sen Gallery on the back.
Signed and dated on the lower left.
Measurements: 71 x 71 cm; 75 x 75 cm (frame).
After having been a key figure of the Movida Madrileña in the late seventies and early eighties, at this stage his work progressively moved away from the more immediate and underground graphics to enter into a more reflective and elaborate painting.
His 1986 work showed a clear evolution towards a more narrative and lyrical pictorial language. Maintaining the expressive stroke and pop aesthetics inherited from comics, posters and illustration, but incorporating more complex compositions, a rich chromatic palette and melancholic atmospheres, where memory and night, as seen in this work. His figures, often solitary or self-absorbed, reflected a more intimate and less festive look than in his early years.
In 1986, coinciding with the cultural climate after the Movida and the institutionalization of that generation, his work began to be valued not only as a generational testimony, but also as a solid contribution to contemporary Spanish painting.
Painter, illustrator and cartoonist, Ceesepe was one of the protagonists of the Movida in Madrid, and began his career in the world of underground comics in the mid-seventies in Barcelona, in contact with Max, Nazario and Mariscal, among others. He published comics in the magazines "Star" and "Bésame mucho", and in 1980 he made the poster for Almodóvar's "Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón". In 1982 an exhibition was dedicated to him at the Menéndez Pelayo University, and two years later he became one of the best-selling authors at ARCO. Some time later he left the comic and focused on painting, exhibiting his work in Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva and New York, among other cities. His work has been collected in books such as "El difícil arte de mentir", "París-Madrid", "Libro blanco" or "El arte de morir", and in 2011 the Spanish Council of Ministers awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. Ceesepe is currently represented in several private collections, as well as in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid, the Ateneo of the same city, etc.