Carlos Asensio - Impressive face III

- The work is in perfect condition for conservation.
- It comes directly from the artist’s studio and is completely original.
- This painting is done with oil on canvas.
- It is hand-signed on the bottom right of the front.
- It does not require framing since the edges are painted.
- Several layers of varnish have been applied to protect the painting.
- Includes a certificate of authenticity issued and signed by the artist himself.
- The painting is wrapped in bubble wrap and a sturdy cardboard to ensure its safety.
- The piece is shipped mounted on a wooden stretchers via an international shipping agency.

In “Naughty figures,” the human figure and the portrait become fertile ground for symbolic transgression. It is not just about bodies; it is about gestures that disobey, about forms that escape the norm, about identities that fold and unfold in a constant game of displacement. Each painting is an ambiguous scene where naughtiness is not merely an act of humor or mischief, but a critical strategy: a way to subvert the expectations that the viewer carries when looking. The series builds on a deliberate tension between what is recognizable and what is overflowing. The figures and faces, though they allude to tangible corporeality, refuse to be domesticated by the gaze. They contort, dislocate, fragment. They do not obey the rules of decorum nor the conventions of gender, beauty, or posture. They are there to discomfort, to seduce, to provoke. The title “Impressive face” alludes to that fragile moral classification with which we organize the visible world: what is permitted and what is forbidden, what is serious and what is frivolous, what is artistic and what is vulgar. These people do not ask for permission. They filter in. They laugh. They display themselves without apologizing. In their disobedience, they become uncomfortably free. And in that freedom, they reveal what is often hidden behind the silence of what is “correct”: the desire to look, but also the fear of being seen.

Carlos Asensio was born in Castellón in 1986. At an early age he began his academic training under the tutelage of Cuban artist Amaury Suárez.

He holds a Doctorate in Fine Arts, with a grade of outstanding Cum laude, and has a Master’s in Artistic Production from the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has also completed a Studio Program at the Berlin Art Institute where he received lessons from renowned artists such as Bernhard Martin, Larissa Fassler, Nikola Röthemeyer, and Various & Gould. His research work has led him to participate in several international university conferences, as well as to publish in humanities journals such as Human Review or Peter Lang.

Among his notable achievements are several solo exhibitions, including those held at the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente in Fuenlabrada, the Museo Municipal de Albacete, and the Centro 14 in Alicante. Regarding group shows, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally. In the collective show Ciclamen for the Léucade Gallery in Murcia, a collaborative project at the DXIX Projects space in Fort Collins, in two editions of the GlogauAIR Open Studios, or BAAM#3 in Monopol Berlin. The traveling exhibition Atlas del Arte Español held at the Exhibition Hall of the Junta Municipal de Usera, the Mauro Muriendas Hall in Torrelavega, and the O Vello Cárcere Cultural Center in Lugo. The various exhibitions carried out with the Infinity Art project in fairs such as the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam, Art Madrid, or Estampa in Madrid. The 2019_n3 collective show at Piramidón Centre D’Art Contemporani in Barcelona, the Art Spring 2019 event in Berlin, six editions of Marte, the Castellón International Contemporary Art Fair, the III Biennial of Old City Arts Oberta in Valencia, or the II Call of La New Fair in Madrid.

Additionally, some of his works are part of important private collections such as the Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno and Piramidón Centre D’Art Contemporani in Barcelona, the Museo Arte Contemporanea Sicilia in Catania, and public institutions such as the Museu de la Ciutat de Castelló. Privately, his work is present in collections in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, and the United States.