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Apart from some solo shows for which Uruguayan artist Carlos Perez Franco prepared specific sets of work, the artist generally worked in recurring themes rather than readily-defined series. Major themes throughout his career include abstract figurative portraiture, urban and rural "paisajes," marinsescapes, "el cotidiano" slices of daily life, the interaction of families, music, futbol and Uruguayan neighborhood street life.
As an architect by profession, it is natural that image, presence, form, color and space all play vital roles in Perez Franco compositions. His works often ask as many questions as they answer. Indeed, one of the joys of viewing Perez Franco paintings beyond their aesthetic qualities is to decipher their elements, his visual code and unique iconography. To fully understand the depth of his perception and the power of his work, one must determine why he chose to include or exclude certain objects in a particular work and why they are depicted in a specific manner. Palette, relative placement, level of detail, expression and stroke technique offer clues to the viewer.
Even in Perez Franco's minimalist compositions, there is always something of intrigue that hints at the concepts being explored within the overall composition. It's interesting to note that the artist was years ahead of his time in many works where he used a very contemporary structure of using loose spacing, alternative perspectives and partial elements to infer the entirety of the content and context rather than feed the viewer everything with all-over painting. Elements became parts of visual puzzles. Through various combinations of suggestion and implication, both complimentary and conflicting interpretations may often be derived.
Perez Franco wanted viewers to think about the concepts he explored as much as the visual images themselves. His canon of work did precisely that.