Santiago Garcia Paintings
Uruguayan
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist’s work raises absurd situations within a framework of the everyday world and leaves the content on its own to the free interpretation of the observer. The artist was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1974. As self-taught painter, Garcia produced an immense body of work in his early years. During the mid-1990s, under an art scholarship with the University of Uruguay, he studied under master engraver Eduardo Fornasari, master painter Clever Lara and acclaimed ceramicist Susana Pizzurno. In 1998, Garcia obtained a grant from the Museum of American art of Maldonado for drawing and painting studies with the master painter Miguel Angel Battegazzore. He worked as an assistant to the Argentinean painter Rogelio Polesello for exhibition at the Museum of American art of Maldonado, Uruguay. For the exhibition, he produced murals for Juvenalia 98 and the subsequent exhibition at La Rural del Prado in Montevideo, Uruguay. The numbers and sometimes words you see in Santiago Garcia’s paintings are based on Divine Proportion, which is a mathematical ratio that ultimately determines the patterns and proportions of the painting. Also, numerology, each number has significance and meaning. Sometimes that meaning is subjective and not explainable. The words seen on the canvas are meant to have a subliminal effect that is up to the viewer to interpret. What’s important to note about the work is that they are “new figuration”, or “magic realism”. “New figuration” refers to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 60’s following a period dominated by abstraction. The work shows a passion for the human (or animal or shoe) form. Garcia’s paintings often incorporate seemingly contradictory elements that he brings into harmony. Some of his paintings show animals in absurd situations where the modern world clashes with the wild in a context that allows the viewer to finish the work according to their own vision. He feels that the paintings should not be explained, but left to the viewer. Other paintings depict converse shoes that serve as metaphors for family, relationships, and reminders of where they’ve been and where they’re going.(Biography provided by Eisenhauer Gallery)
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Artist: Santiago Garcia
"#1568" acrylic painting of a black and white zebra standing in a cardboard box
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"#1569" acrylic painting of a black and white zebra standing in a cardboard box
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
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"#1570" acrylic painting of a black and white zebra standing in a red bath tub
By Santiago Garcia
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"#1499" photorealistic oil painting of three blue converse sneakers hanging
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"#1505" photorealistic oil painting of red, pink, and blue converse sneakers
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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"#1485" Acrylic painting of blue Converse hanging with white background.
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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"#1484" Acrylic painting of red, pink and black High Top Converse hanging
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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"#1502" Acrylic painting of red pink and blue high top converse on white.
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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"#1488" Acrylic painting of red blue and black converse on a tall white canvas.
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
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"1491" Acrylic painting of green red and pink converse of varying styles.
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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"#1500" Acrylic painting of purple, green, and blue converse.
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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"#1411" oil painting of green & orange converse sneakers hanging by their laces
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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"Zebra #533" oil painting of a black and white zebra looking back, side view
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...
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2010s Santiago Garcia Paintings
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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"#3" Abstract oil painting in vibrant red with yellow, orange, blue and purple
By Santiago Garcia
Located in Edgartown, MA
Abstract oil painting in vibrant reds with yellow, blue, orange and purple.
The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist’s work raises absurd situations within a framework of the everyday world and leaves the content on its own to the free interpretation of the observer.
The artist was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1974. As self-taught painter, Garcia produced an immense body of work in his early years. During the mid-1990s, under an art scholarship with the University of Uruguay, he studied under master engraver Eduardo Fornasari, master painter Clever Lara and acclaimed ceramicist Susana Pizzurno.
In 1998, Garcia obtained a grant from the Museum of American art of Maldonado for drawing and painting studies with the master painter Miguel Angel Battegazzore. He worked as an assistant to the Argentinean painter Rogelio Polesello for exhibition at the Museum of American art of Maldonado, Uruguay. For the exhibition, he produced murals for Juvenalia 98 and the subsequent exhibition at La Rural del Prado in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The numbers and sometimes words you see in Santiago Garcia’s paintings are based on Divine Proportion, which is a mathematical ratio that ultimately determines the patterns and proportions of the painting. Also, numerology, each number has significance and meaning. Sometimes that meaning is subjective and not explainable. The words seen on the canvas are meant to have a subliminal effect that is up to the viewer to interpret.
What’s important to note about the work is that they are “new figuration”, or “magic realism”. “New figuration” refers to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 60’s following a period dominated by abstraction. The work shows a passion for the human (or animal or shoe) form.
Garcia’s paintings often incorporate seemingly contradictory elements that he brings into harmony. Some of his paintings show animals in absurd situations where the modern world clashes with the wild in a context that allows the viewer to finish the work according to their own vision. He feels that the paintings should not be explained, but left to the viewer. Other paintings depict converse shoes...
Category
2010s Abstract Santiago Garcia Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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