Fernando Carballo starts during the 70’s and his first exposition was a success in critiques, in which the teacher Paco Amighetti made the presentation of his catalogue.
In the 80’s his theme was considered to be into the Latin American social expressionism, Rocío Fernández (journalist and director of Costa Rican Art Museum) said in Ancora supplement, La Nación newspaper; as a title “Fernando Carballo: the grotesque aesthetics”. In that time his strongest theme was in traces, using resources and tools from the graphic arts such as offset ink, his characters were the screaming, muscles, and dark windows with elements like small black and white letters or texts. Then the color is presented filled with sensuality, softness, and lots of light in his drawing and painting work.
Carballo is a teacher, he has created a school inside Costa Rica’s contemporary plastic, and his work does not need a signature; they are icons of the most recent art history not only from Costa Rica and Latin American, but he represents a milestone at the international modern art, just as it was said of him by worldwide teacher Fernando Botero: “Carballo fills spaces with his light, only few I have seen”.
We stand before a Latin American plastic artist, a exclusive artist here at Pueblarte.

(See Fernando Carballo site)