FERNANDO GARCÍA CORREA
Mexico, 1958
His early studies were at the National School of Painting and Sculpture La Esmeralda and at the Academy of San Carlos. Years later he would go to the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he lived and studied drawing from 1980 to 1991.
Fernando Garcia Correa has worked for more than thirty years focusing his efforts on promoting the cause of abstract painting. During the last twenty years, he has slowly –but tenaciously– built a body of work that examines and explores the fields of post-minimalist painting.
To appreciate the importance and quality of García Correa’s work in the Mexican artistic context, it is important to understand that abstraction has developed unevenly in Mexico. The history of abstraction in his country is not parallel to the European or North American ones. In fact, abstract painting was practically nonexistent before the fifties in Mexico, when some exiled European artists brought it with them. The movement would be later adopted by a younger generation of artists during the seventies when they saw abstraction as a way to overcome and criticize the Muralist movement.
The abstraction of La Ruptura was more related to the poetics and aesthetics of the Paris school, than with the abstract painting from New York. This was one of the major changes in taste and aesthetic during the late twentieth century. Minimalism never arrived to Mexico and this decisively and unfortunately changed the development of abstract painting, since the good abstract painting of the last thirty years had developed as a response to minimalism. The work of Fernando García Correa has tried to close the gap between Mexican abstract painting and the most relevant international abstract painting.
Since 1986 Fernando García Correa has had thirty solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. He has participated in group exhibitions in Mexico, Colombia, The United States, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Switzerland and Canada.
His work, which is present in public and private collections in Mexico and around the globe, has received awards like the Acquisition Award at the XII Bienal Rufino Tamayo in 2006, the Pollock – Krasner Foundation grant in 2010 and the National System of Creators grant in 2005, 2010 and 2015.
Exhibitions at the gallery
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Abstracción 1, 2013 |
Sombra de Bosque, 2012 |
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