Painter attached to the new Madrid figuration of the seventies, Carlos Franco develops a language of symbolic images, taken from classical mythology or the unconscious, also characterized by the juxtaposition of images and the voluptuousness of color, which derives in his recent work in the investigation of supports and pictorial techniques. He made his solo debut in 1971, at the Sala Doncel in Pamplona, and the following year he performed in Madrid, at the Amadís gallery. In the following years, he will alternate his personal exhibitions with illustration and occasional decoration work.

Likewise, in 1989 he won the Madrid City Council competition for the mural decoration of the façade of the Real Casa de la Panadería in the Pl...