Carlos Orive
Born to a Madrilenian father and a Cantabrian mother, Carlos Orive was born in Madrid in April 1966. Carlos Orive entered the world of art through photography, which he discovered and began to work on in a specialized workshop at his college, at the early age of twelve.
Graduated in photography from the Academy of Madrid, he developed a personal technique, the 'pigment graphie', which is based on the fusion of photography, painting, and computer tools on canvas, never using traditional collage and never coloring the photograph directly.
He teaches photography at the 'Torito' Cultural Center in Madrid, and at the Eugenia de Montijo College in Carabanchel, and digital retouching by computer at CESINE in Cantabria, among others. He receives several awards from foundations and artistic institutions in Spain.
In his personal creative trajectory, he applies and uses superimpositions, fragments, and image retouching, all on a background of personal reflection on the figure of man today. He is highly influenced by the Informal Art of 20th-century Spanish painters (Tàpies, Saura, Chillida…), which he constantly studies and inspires him. He brings his personal concept to this great History of Art, reintroducing the human figure as the main protagonist of his work; and opts for new technologies as a technical prerequisite, anchoring his art in the contemporary.
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