Dis Berlín, | Colección

20^th Century Spanish

Mariano Carrera, better known under the pseudonym of Dis Berlín, spent part of his childhood and his teenage years in Zaragoza, from where he moved to Madrid to study Journalism, which he eventually abandoned to devote himself to painting.

He borrowed the subject matters for his first exhibitions in the early 1980s from such varied sources as fashion, exoticism, photography and poetry. His body of work from that decade has been termed as his blue period, dominated by motifs such as airports, trains, cities, landscapes and war scenes that he built following formulas culled from Italian

Metaphysical painting

. It was in 1987 when Dis Berlín’s work shifted towards more geometric forms executed in flat, aggressive colours coupled with ironic manipulations of figurative references.

In the 1990s, besides his art practice, which now expanded to include photography and sculpture as well as painting, he started making incursions into publishing and curatorship. In 1991 he founded a publishing company and an art gallery, both under the name of El Caballo de Troya.