Edgar Plans

EDGAR PLANS (Madrid, 1977).
"Animal Hero Pop Version 1", 2017.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and titled on the back.
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm.

Little comic book mice with super heroes masks carry in their hands a kind of flashlight that illuminates colorful worlds. They remind us of colorful balloons like those held by street vendors to the delight of children, and are made with short strokes applied with generous touches of pigment. One of the fantasy creatures is sad because his lantern emits no light. Light symbolizes in this painting by Edgar Plans the imagination, the ability to create alternative and visionary worlds. That is why these singular characters who transform the gray aridity of the desert into a festival of colors are Pop heroes. Edgar Plans' painting is brimming with naïff freshness. He drinks from the world of graffiti and the simplicity of comic universes. 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.

We are before a painter who enjoys great acceptance in international events and in the art market, being one of the most sought-after young artists. According to the artist's own words: "Already 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 group and solo 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.