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Gonzalo García"Panejos y cojaros con alas" , abstract, surrealist painting, figurative, nature2023
2023
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Enveloped by outstretched paintings, Gonzalo García reveals the ever-present ghosts of our past and present in a delicate swirl of color, light, and flesh. These deeply visceral displays of animals, bodies and mythological creatures come to life in his oil paintings' palette of soft tones. There is a struggle to find balance, a tension between fortitude and fragility, safety and vulnerability, masculinity and femininity, and even life and death. From his canvases to his wallpaper pieces, viewers have immersed in a temporal disruption as García shares an investigation into his relationship to memory, dissecting his familial ties, and the pursuit of identity.
"My work as a figurative painter examines my experience as a gay male living in Mexico today. My early paintings and drawings are more explicitly erotic in that they focus exclusively on human flesh, depicting the vulnerability of self-portraiture through the lens of intimacy and sex. Over time, I began to paint my friends in similar states of being—leveraging a seductive, mystical realism in the works to evoke each subject’s physicality and overarching sense of desire. While these self-portraits allowed me to explore, and ultimately uncover, who I was as a gay male artist, lately I’ve been compelled to work more metaphorically and bring to life more subdued sexual motifs like flowers, complete with varied textures and colors that echo the human body but allow the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
In both portraits and still-life, key themes tie the works together. These include the body, sexuality, fragility, and undertones of violence. The latter lies beneath the surface of the scene featured on the canvas, inviting the viewer to take stock of the composition and only then dig deeper into the painting’s history. After receiving Mexico’s coveted FONCA (National Fund for Culture and the Arts) scholarship multiple, I began to research and subsequently fictionalize elements of Mexican history, particularly milestones from the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘90s, blending past and present to inspire a sense of contemplation regarding where the nation is today. Death, culture, and Mexican folklore come together alongside notions of identity, nationalism, and progress, with the goal of creating an entirely new atmosphere that captures the viewer’s eye in a near-superstitious fashion. There’s a sensory obsessiveness regarding the shapes, colors, and textures at play within the works. A muted color palette and anatomical approach enable me to experiment thematically while maintaining my artistic voice as I experiment with memory."
- Creator:Gonzalo García (1985, Mexican)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 51.18 in (130 cm)Width: 35.43 in (90 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Ciudad de México, MX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2072212101282
Gonzalo studied Visual Arts at the Instituto Allende University, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. His most recent work addresses different social and historical issues in Mexico based on novels written in the 40s and movies from the 70s and 80s of our country. In his career, he has had seven individual exhibitions in Mexico and more than 15 collective exhibitions including various museums in Querétaro, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Sweden, Spain, and recently in New York and California, in the US. In 2013 he had a residency at the Swedish Watercolor Museum, near the city of Gothenburg, and obtained the FONCA "Young Creators" Scholarship for the first time, in the discipline of painting. Likewise, he has been selected in several biennials throughout his career, such as the last XVII Rufino Tamayo Biennial of 2016-2017 and the José y Tomás Chávez Morado Biennial of 2018, where he obtained an honorable mention, as well as the last VI Pedro Coronel Biennial. from Zacatecas. In 2018 he obtained the FONCA "Young Creators" Scholarship for the second time in the discipline of painting. In that same year, he was selected in the "Julio Castillo" Biennial of painting in the city of Querétaro, exhibited at the Libertad Gallery, as well as in a pop-up show of contemporary Mexican painting in Los Angeles, California, with the Emilia Cohen Gallery. In 2019 he participated in several group exhibitions in Edo. from Mexico and CDMX, such as the collective painting exhibition "New Skin for an old ceremony" at the Karen Huber Gallery, and the FAIN Fair (1st Edition). Last year he had his seventh individual exhibition at the Arte Actual Mexicano Gallery, in Mty, N.L., entitled "Fires" and had the support of the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship for the third time, in the discipline of painting, in addition to receiving Mention honorary in the 4th Edition of the Lumen Biennial, "Panorama", still exhibited at the beginning of 2022 at the Museum of the City of Mexico City. Finally, in August of this year, he had his seventh individual exhibition at Galería Loot, in Col. Roma in Mexico City.
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