Winner of the 2004 National Prize for Plastic Arts, Carlos Pazos’ work is positioned between the two main artistic currents of late 20th-century Spanish art: Informalism and Conceptualism. His practice begins under the influence of European Pop Art, evolving toward the language of objects, assemblage, and associations of meaning. His work also shares a strong connection with Arte Povera, emphasizing everyday elements and their iconographic codes. Pazos’ art also aligns with Neo-Dadaism, Surrealism, and the aesthetics of silence seen in the works of Duchamp, Warhol, and Broodthaers.
