Fernando García Correa
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 context of Mexican art, it is important to understand that abstraction has developed unevenly in Mexico. Abstract painting was practically nonexistent before the fifties in Mexico, when some exiled European artists brought it over(seas). The movement would later be adopted by a younger generation of artists during the seventies, (for) they saw abstraction as a way to overcome and criticize the Muralist movement. 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 …
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 context of Mexican art, it is important to understand that abstraction has developed unevenly in Mexico. Abstract painting was practically nonexistent before the fifties in Mexico, when some exiled European artists brought it over(seas). The movement would later be adopted by a younger generation of artists during the seventies, (for) they saw abstraction as a way to overcome and criticize the Muralist movement. 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.
Courtesy of Arroniz Gallery
