Carlos Albert

Carlos Albert - Whisper

Technique: Wrought iron

Artist Biography: Madrid sculptor Carlos Albert started working with forging in 1999 with Martin Chirino, from whom he not only learned the technique and sculptural conception, but also helped him discover new paths in his plastic creation. That same year he created, together with other artists, the "Grupo 99", whose manifesto exalts "the traditional values of art" in what is a confusing moment for the sector. He continued his training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University with a degree and a Diploma in Advanced Studies and, thanks to a scholarship from the University of Madrid, at the Camberwell College of Arts of the London Institute (1999-2000). Throughout her career her work has also brought her grants at the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture (2001), the Elsa Peretti Foundation in Girona (2002) and the Hong Hac Dai Lai JSC of the Flamingo Group in Vietnam (2017). Albert's production revolves around working with iron and corten steel, modeling them in such a way that he manages to make his pieces almost come to life, in a continuous search for movement, explorations of space and geometry, and reflections between the object and the void. Although his practice is firmly rooted within Abstraction, he considers himself a very traditional artist who is guided by classical canons and gives great importance to drawing and composition. In his most recent stage he highlights the incorporation of color as an additional tool that reinforces the contrast between volumes and is positioned as a hallmark of his work. Carlos Albert's work can be found in numerous institutions, museums, public spaces and private collections such as the National Heritage of Spain, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Seville, the Infanta Elena Museum of Contemporary Art in Ciudad Real and the Art in The Forest Museum of Vinh Phuc in Vietnam, the City of Havana in Cuba, the collections of the Sevillana Endesa Foundation, the AguaGranada Foundation, the Venancio Blanco Foundation of Madrid, the FRIDE Foundation, the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla and Caixanova, and the city councils of Madrid, Santander, Salamanca, Soria, Segovia, Palencia, Cádiz and Melilla, among others. He has also participated in many national and international exhibitions and contemporary art fairs, having been awarded important prizes such as the Sculpture Prize of the "Grupo Ciudades Patrimonio de la Humanidad en España", the Gold Medal of the Autumn Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, the Sevillana Endesa Foundation Prize at the LXI National Autumn Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría, the First Prize of the City of Santander or the First Prize for Sculpture "Victorio Macho" of the "City of Palencia" Awards.