"The complicit look", Carle Naide, Ibiza 2023
Carle Naide Exhibition, Ibiza 2023
Carle Naide Exhibition, Ibiza 2023
Beauty is charged with the power to move us. Art may make us see. It only requires vigi- lance, engagement, and caring. The more attentively we live, the more we can get into contact with the world, perhaps even change it. The aesthetic experience is today limited by the zeal for action. The hurried and impatient human environment in which we live, blurs the perception of relations, and leaves experience partial and distorted, with scant or false meaning. The spectator is not only prevented from enjoying beauty but also be- comes incapable of recognizing it. The modern fog covers the light of culture and pre- vents the viewer to appreciate with clarity. Against that, Carle reacts with a complicit look that intends to bring back to us clear skies. For Carle Nadie (Madrid, 1994), art is about creating connections. From a situationist stance, he condemns a numb world lacking wonder and action. And he does so in an elegant silent way, bringing the past to the present, charging our sight towards the time to come. Carle’s paintings question the status of all images, his brush is a servant of his thought. Inspired by Val del Omar’s image transformations, Pedro Romero’s writings on fla- menco and Lorca’s poetics, his ideas take regular strolls with them through the Generalife. His paintings allow beauty to enter furtively: it offers us the opportunity to see through the eyes of those that came before us. In this way, beauty appears without having to be pur- sued and, precisely because of the lack of intent, it can be easily captured. It is the work of a searcher of incorruptible character, that keeps alive the utopia of the free artist. In this exhibition, the present work is a wink to the modern spectator. It displays forms of inhabiting the world that, absent of turmoil, connect with the viewer through a complicit look. Through strokes, the paintings show the “flamenco” spirit of happiness, the one that makes it possible to navigate the turbulences of daily life. The calm absorption that ema- nates in Carle’s paintings intends to bring back the spectator with the necessary attention to appreciate beauty. It is the art of those who know how to live. Thus, the work invites the viewer to a reception of calm and light. It will be then, the spectator, who in his percep- tion, may or may not be moved, may or may not open her soul, may or may not awaken a lived conscious. And perhaps, the spectator decides to renew her engagement in the appreciation of life.
