Back to the Bones, our photos of Carlos Olmo's exhibition at La Lison gallery

Street art like you've never seen it before... Galerie La Lison invites you to discover its latest exhibition of works by artist Carlos Olmo, entitled Back to the Bones, from January 18, 2024 to February 24, 2024. This exhibition unveils a body of work deeply marked by the artist's childhood memories, blending diverse influences such as street art, rock and geek culture, photography, cinema and comics. Carlos Olmo, known for his protean and eclectic approach, offers visitors a rich visual experience, where each piece tells a powerful and personal story.

Carlos Olmo has created an artistic universe of light and shadow, inspired as much by the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio as by the dementia of Francis Bacon. His works, imbued with a unique artistic poetry, transform dark themes such as violence and death into genuine artistic expressions. Vanities, monsters, skeletons - all become essential elements of his expression, revealing the unspeakable and confronting the visitor with an alternate reality, at once strange and familiar.

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After more than ten years in corporate illustration and packshot photography, Carlos Olmo has reinvented his family photos, transforming wedding and communion clichés into fantastical scenes where characters become witches, vampires, or child-monsters. It's an invitation to explore memories and family figures from a new, surreal angle.

Carlos Olmo 's work also extends to the world of music, with tributes to rock icons such as Lemmy Kilmister, Kurt Cobain and Elvis Presley. His creations, a mix of skeleton drawings on posters of iconic musicians, underline a reflection on immortality and mortality. These works recall the central message of rock'n'roll: awareness of our mortality.

The artist has also taken to the streets, transforming advertising posters into "skeletonized" works of art, revealing the existential temporality of a world geared to over-consumption. These urgent creations, in which Carlos Olmo 's strokes are strong and without tenderness, testify to an acute self-awareness in space and time.

In the execution of his works, Carlos Olmo skilfully combines traditional and modern methods, using both gold leaf and Posca, alternating between brush and spray can. This technical duality reflects the thematic duality of his work: an invitation to lose the sense of the obvious and find new meaning in art. Discover her work at La Lison gallery!