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Soto Carlos
The works were made with fragments of engravings made in different techniques and printed on cotton paper, to later be cut out and finely reconstructed on a paper support. The traditional engraving technique and collage come together and dissolve in a single composition, thus generating a unique piece, which essentially becomes labyrinths or mental maps that treasure and protect sensations of transformation and emotional discharge.
This exercise has allowed me to make visible the potential of art as a purifying act that generates a confrontation with our memory, stigmatizes and reactivates our resilience from a philosophy of transformation and detachment.
Carlos Soto has a degree in Plastic and Visual Arts from ENPEG La Esmeralda. His style has been marked by contemporary graphics, collage, stencil and street art.
He has a beneficiary of the Young Creators Program FONCA 2020-2021 with the collage an engraving project “Crear, Destruir, Preservar” with He had a honorable mention in the XIII National Biennial of Painting and Engraving Alfredo Zalce 2022 and participation in the “Creación en Movimiento” exhibition in the San Ildelfonso Museum Mexico.
He has had the opportunity to hold individual exhibitions in Mexico City such as “Fragmentos” at Casa Lamm Gallery, Gráfica Esténcil VI years La Buena Estrella Gallery an in the city of Oaxaca with the exhibitions “Las Enseñanzas de Doña Macabra”. Likewise, he had participated in multiple collective exhibitions such as “Avistamiento” Casa Lamm Gallery; “Mano de Obra” Trades in Mexican Art Graphics in the 20th and 21th centuries in 2022, “Zapata Vivo” Through Contemporany Art Graphics in 2019 both at Nacional Printmaking and Graphic Art Museum.
He was selected in the first UNAM Visual Arts Biennial, 2016; Montar La Bestia, Collective Artists against discrimination, 2016; Biennial of the Cuernavaca Volcanoes 2015 and selected in the National Meeting of Contemporary Graphics Workshops, A Tiro de Fuego 2011-2013.
