Soto Carlos

Ejercicios de disolución
Ejercicios de disolución 1920x1080 px, videocollage, 2023
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The idea of success is artificial. It is made by the status quo of dominant ideologies. Success means an accumulation of capital, having an ethical conduct, common sense, and rational logic. Success is discipline. Failure, on the other hand, means freedom. Freedom to embrace childish anarchism and eschew the dominant narratives of logic. Freedom to immerse in the reasoning of dreams and use free association to dig out symbols that tell us about how we are made inside a dominant discipline.

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Soto Carlos
Date of birth: 1986
Place of residence: Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico)

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.

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