GUILLERMO GARCIA CRUZ
GLITCHED SPACE II
SOLO EXHIBITION
BARRANGUET ARTS
Guest curator: Natalie Kates-Ferri
EASTON / CONNECTICUT
JULY 2021
Guillermo Garcia Cruz is one of the most accomplished young Uruguayan artists. His work has been exhibited individually at the Contemporary Art Space in Montevideo, and internationally in exhibitions in Lima, Buenos Aires, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Lisbon and Tianjin. Among other articles and mentions, in 2019 he has been globally distinguished among the 12 artists in the focus of the next generation, by the Ibero-American site Arte Informado. He currently works between the cities of Madrid, New York, Montevideo and Lima, developing an interdisciplinary body of work made up of painting, photography, action and installation, pursuing a problematic look at the phenomenon of validation in the current contemporary art system. In addition, he works as Professor of the Visual Arts Degree at the Catholic University of Montevideo.
GLITCHED SPACE I
GALERIA NUEVA - DUO 1/5 WITH MAGDALENA ARNAUD
17 DIC 2020 / 31 ENERO 2021
MADRID, ESPAÑA
Galería Nueva presents the Project Duo, a combination of five exhibitions organized by Atelier Solar and sponsored by Madrid City Council through the programme for supporting contemporary art and national and international mobility 2019. In this first exhibition we can meet the artwork of Magna Arnaud and Guillermo García Cruz which they have been producing in the studios of Atelier Solar during the last two months.
These artists were sectioned inside the project “Curator meets artist,” a program that allows a selection of eight curators from Europe to realize virtual visits through videoconferences to the studios of more than 120 artists from Madrid, just as get closer to the exhibitions of artists without studio that realize in Galería Nueva.
This doble exhibition get us closer to two different ways to experiment the present: Magna Arnaud from a personal diary and poetic that makes count throughout phrases, textures and objects, of everything that she experiments as an artist; Guillermo García Cruz from the transformation of the exhibition space as a symbol of change, global crisis, and regeneration of the artistic institution. Both sights, from the personal or the global, are searching a moment of change that we are seeing in this ending of 2020.
RECOLETO CREATIVE
SOLO EXHIBITION
JAVEA / ESPAÑA
En un juego conceptual entre obra exhibida y obra exhibiendo, el artista uruguayo presenta esta exposición que sería la primera individual en la nueva galería RECOLETO en Jávea, Valencia.
La investigación de Garcia Cruz parte de experimentos pictóricos visuales, que utilizan la imagen del muro o pared, explorando diferentes maneras de representar esta estructura geométrica como símbolo. Estas obras investigan la interrelación entre el objeto artístico, representado como una presencia pictórica orgánica, y la institución que la contiene, expresada visualmente como arquitectura institucional. El espacio contextual se vuelve el tema principal de este trabajo, buscando cuestionar el problema de la validación en el sistema actual del arte contemporáneo.
Habiendo nacido de la experimentación visual con espacios de exhibiciones tanto reales como ficticios, el proceso de obra comienza dentro de cuatro paredes a través de la pintura y luego se extiende al espacio, resemantizando los materiales de construcción para hablar sobre la pared que se convierte en la obra de arte. Ahora la obra determina nuevos espacios no convencionales que la contienen, donde la pieza es llevada al otro lado de su rol inicial, para transformar la nueva ubicación alternativa en parte de esta interacción y volver a exhibirse como fotografía de esta acción.
FUENTE: Arte al Día