Carlos Barrios: Mas Alegria

Mas Alegria (More Joy) is an energetic and eclectic exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Queensland artist, Carlos Barrios, showing at Mitchell Fine Art from April 16, 2024. 

Barrios continues to play with familiar themes of human connection and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy in Mas Alegria. These concepts are portrayed by the figures and animals that inhabit his artworks.

Raised in El Salvador in Central America and the son of an archaeologist, Barrios is fascinated by how
energy and belief can transform something simple, almost banal, into a powerful source of communication.

As a maker of pictures and objects, Barrios observes long periods of intense concentration and
comments that this process often engenders an almost hallucinatory state as he ‘simply becomes the conduit through which the artworks are created’.

‘When involved in the act of creation, I find I am delivered a sense of peace. Life can challenge us, and it becomes important to have tools to shift one's perception, elevate one’s perspective and to inspire and heal us’, says Barrios.

An opening event will be held on Saturday, April 20 from 2-4pm with the artist in attendance.

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