Ceesepe

"CEESEPE"; CARLOS SÁNCHEZ PÉREZ (Madrid, 1958).
"Café de la Habane", 1982.
Acrylic on canvas.
It has two slight restorations in the upper left corner.
Attached the comic "Barcelona by night". Ed. Les humanoides Associés with the painting reproduced on the cover.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 120 x 100 cm; 132 x 112 cm (frame).
Alberto García Alix photographed the artist Ceesepe in 1982 with this work, which served as the cover of the comic book Barcelona by night, illustrated entirely by the artist from Madrid. The idea of coffee as a theme, inspired by his admiration for Lautrec, emerged in the painting of Ceesepe, who in the early eighties created a series of paintings starring scenes populated by numerous characters enjoying leisure, such as "Café de Madrid", also painted in 1982 and currently in a private collection. Despite being different compositions, in both paintings the author captures a vibrant and fun atmosphere, emphasized by the use of a chromatic range of bright colors. The multiplicity of the characters, the colors, the scenery of simple shapes are characteristic features of pop art, although added to a very personal language of bombastic shapes defined with sharp angles.
Painter, illustrator and cartoonist, Ceesepe was one of the protagonists of the Movida madrileña, 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 comics 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.