Carlos Canet Fortea

The transformation and evolution of nature are central themes in my work. The observation of a natural space and its subsequent transformation produces new emotions and new perspectives.

My most recent work raises future natural spaces, based on observation and two central axes: the transformation of nature by human action and the evolution of climatic phenomena.
Starting from decontextualized photographic images, I propose the vision of landscapes where, fictionally, new technologies partially replace the real world.

In the same way that nature is continuously transformed by elements contributed by man, in my images I introduce elements that alter landscapes, in order to create representations of new -future- natural spaces. The elements that I use are usually other photographs, as a collage, and compact digital masses of color, which work as a contribution to the landscape, and that decontextualize the original image. The use of these abstract and non-photographic masses of digital color makes the images have a new meaning, and require a new reading and identification on the part of the viewer.

I like to break the limits of photography and create images that conceptualize abstraction and digital media as part of the natural la...

After studying higher education I started working as an apprentice in an old photography studio, where I trained in classical technique at the beginning of the 80s. Since then I have not stopped studying and getting to know everything that has interested me.

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1984 City Council of Alicante Spain
1985 Caixa Valencia (Group exhibition) Valencia,
Spain
1987 Sala JAPA. Alicante, Spain
1988 InterArte (Group exhibition) Valencia Spain
1990 Moriarty Gallery (Group exhibition). Madrid,
Spain
1990 Fúcares Gallery (Group exhibition) Amagro,
Spain
1992 EXPO 92 (Group exhibition) Sevilla, Spain
1994 Valencian Photographers (Group exhibition). Mie,Japan
1997 Italia Gallery. Alicante Spain
2005 El carro de Tespis. Sax, Spain
2006 Sala Mengolero. Rojales, Spain
2006 Forn Cultural. Petrer, Spain
2009 Manhattan exhibition. Espai d´art. Benidorm, Spain
2009 Fish market. Alicante, Spain
2015 Spanische film fest. Berlin, Germany
2016 Casas Sanchís. Monóvar, Spain
2018 L'espai Room. Alicante, Spain

He has work represented in private collections in Spain, France, Germany and USA.