Carlos Fernández Chicote

Carlos Fernández Chicote, better known as Chicote CFC (Alcorcón, Madrid, 1963) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist. He develops his main activity in the field of painting and photography, and has also made sculptures and engravings. He is the founder of symbiotic art, which fuses photography and painting. He has participated in several group and individual international exhibitions. His work is part of museums and institutions.
Career
Educated at the "Centro de Estudios Juan XXIII" in Alcorcón (Madrid), at the age of 12 he began to draw. Self taught, in 1984 he entered the "Centro de Estudios Académicos de Arte - Artium" in Madrid, directed by the painter Eduardo Peña.
His first collective exhibitions date from the 80's (Eureka Gallery, Durán Gallery). It was also at this time that he began to participate in the Nífer bulletin as an art critic and collaborator on artistic issues. He has developed a long career as a graphic designer, photographer and painter encouraged by his travels. His works are "the result of extreme observation, highly reflective, with an irresistible need to exteriorize concerns".
His specialization as a photographer and the knowledge acquired in the main software supports allowed him to formulate the "symbiotic art" or "symbiotism" in 2012. "Symbiotism" is a painting applied by digital means whose total or partial basis is the collage of one or more modified photographs taken by the same artist. The "symbiotic" artist is a painter and a photographer, and "is equally interested in both disciplines. He does not wish to depart from either of them, but rather to create a single one using both".
With a work " deep in textures, chromatic tonalities without limits, punctual reflections and subtle transparencies" it is from 2016 when he turns to show his work with several international exhibitions in a " miscellany of passions and artistic supports ". He has exhibited in Luxembourg, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, USA, Mexico, France, Taiwan and Spain.
Individual Exhibitions
* Abartium Gallery, Barcelona (2018).
* Municipal Arts Centre, Alcorcón (2017)<ref name=":0" />
* Coliseo de las Artes, Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid (2018)
* City Museum, Móstoles (2019)<ref name=":1" />
* Eurostars Exhibition Hall, Alcorcón, Madrid (2020)
Group Exhibitions
* Art Prize Emerging Artists, Luxembourg (2016)
* Art Prize MOCA lagoon Venice, (2016)
* IV International Symposium of Contemporary Architecture. Faculty of Architecture of Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico (2016)
* Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, London (2016)
* Yicca International Contest of Contemporary Art, Italy (2016)
* NordArt 2017 Kunstwerk Carlshútte, Rendsburg/Büdelsdorf, Germany (2016)
* Artavita Collective Exhibition - Gateway Art Center New York City (2016)
* Casa de Vacas del Parque del Retiro Collective Exhibition, Madrid (2018)
* Florida Gallery, Celebrating our Spanish heritage (2018)
* XXIX International Exhibition of Contemporary Art Claret Foundation, Barcelona (2019)
* International Art Fair "Art Karlsruhe Rheinstetten" Germany (2020).
* International Biennial Print Exhibit 2020. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2020)
Artworks in Public Collections
* Spanish Royal House - National Heritage
* Villaviciosa de Odón Town Hall
* Alcorcón Town Hall - Madrid
* National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Nominations
* Reina Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Spain (2018). Nomination
* Artavita Award, New York, (2016). Nomination
* Painting prize, Durán Gallery, Spain (1983). Nomination
Publications
* Symbiotic Art - 2016
* CFC Chicote - 2017 (CB LNº B881916037C)
* Basis and foundation of SIMBIOSISM - 2018
* Simbiosism - 2018 (Legal Dept. No. M-17338-2019)
* Interstellar Symphony - 2019 (ISBN:13:978-2-923147-18-5)
* Realism and Surrealism in "Symbiotism" - 2019 (Legal Dep. No. M-17337-2019)
* "SIMBIOSISM" Counterculture - 2020 (Legal Dep. No. M-00000-2019)
* "A personal vision" (Photograph Collection - 33 Volumes).

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