ALEJANDRO GARCÍA
Marea Nera
from 8 to 30 June 2024
The Exhibition
“Black Tide/Marea Nera” is a research and exhibition project developed at the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center in November 2023 with a focus on the object, printmaking and installation
In the conceptual development of his work, the artist refers to the resulting object as a cultural hybridization that reveals layers of history and multiplicity of influences. The installation focuses on the staging or mode of presentation and the use of printmaking as a discursive tool. Concepts such as space, installation or expansion will be constantly revisited as essential notions.
“Black Tide” is an investigation that is not intended to be closed. It is a synthesis of several formal and conceptual concerns over the past four years, but could be an expanding inquiry or simply a bridge to new research. As the title suggests, the tide is a movement of energy, marine current and aesthetics, combined with the symbolic silk-screened black, as constant for the moment in his creative process.
The Artist
Born in Havana (Cuba) in 1974, Alejandro García attended the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in the capital.
In 1994 his first solo exhibition "Mujeres al Borde" was held in the Domingo Ravenet Gallery in Havana and began a series of collective exhibitions that outline an artistic career lasting thirty years.
In 1999 he arrived in Italy and in 2000 the exhibition "Alma de Cuba" was held in the Centro Luigi di Sarro in Rome, the same year saw the exhibition "Incubazione" which marked the beginning of a long artistic collaboration with the AR&S Gallery in Catanzaro and with the gallerist and art collector Antonio Viapiana with whom he will carry out various projects and art exhibitions continuously until 2022.
In 2002 he was involved in a new artistic project which saw him exhibit at the Jadite Gallery in New York with the exhibition “Stripes & Stairs”.
In 2007 he returned to reside permanently in Cuba, entering the cultural panorama of Havana with exhibitions such as "La Pintura Contraataca" held in the Luz y Oficio Gallery in 2015, and "Al Dente" the result of the artistic collaboration with Rigoberto Mena, held in the same year in the Galleria Habana.
He participated in “Zona Franca”, a collateral exhibition at the 12th Havana Biennial.
In 2018 he resumed his studies at the University of the Arts (ISA - Instituto Superior de Arte) and graduated in Visual Art in 2023; the exhibition “Marea Negra” originated from his thesis and is exhibited in the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam in Havana, curated by Nelson Herrera Ysla.
Alejandro García never leaves his international artistic projection; his works are part of public and private collections in various countries such as France, Italy and the United States.
