Marcos Carrasquer: “Nobody’s Dead”

Marcos Carrasquer, Doctors in Love, 2007, gouache on glass, 15” x 12.5”

Carrasquer’s Corpulent Anachronism

Carrasquer’s art is a metaphor for life and for history. We sense the weight of history inside the voluminous bodies he depicts. History is the lifeblood that circulates in time, it is the witness that testifies that we have lived, that we are alive. He’s not fighting the past, he’s fighting the future by looking back to the past. This is his way of battling against death. The future becomes a metaphor for death and the past, a metaphor for life. He embraces the past, revives history, and anachronistically paints as a way of celebrating life.

By Deborah Zafman, Ph.D.

Exhibition catalog published by galerie deborah zafman, 2009