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SANTIAGO GARCIA | Zebra 1563 | 48 x 60 | Oil on Canvas

SANTIAGO GARCIA

The work of Santiago Garcia explores the intriguing world between realism and abstraction. The artist’s work conveys fictional situations within a framework of the everyday world and leaves the viewer free to interpret the painting in a personal way.

The artist was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1974. As a self-taught painter, Garcia produced an immense body of work in his early years. During the mid-1990s, on an art scholarship with the University of Uruguay, he studied under master engraver Eduardo Fornasari, master painter Clever Lara, and acclaimed ceramicist Susana Pizzurno.

The work is often referred to as “new figuration” or “magic realism.” “New figuration” refers to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 60s following a period dominated by abstraction. Garcia’s work shows a passion for the form, be it human, animal or other.


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