Alexandro Garcia

Alexandro García reveals his ethereal visions to us in meticulously executed drawings mixing fantastic cities – seemingly weightless or about to dash into sidereal infinity – with the ballets of constellations that came to their encounter. They are about an elsewhere offered to our projections and the colonization of a new humanity: “we are not alone”.

The experience of seeing a UFO – called avistamiento in Latin America – provoked this creativity in this gardener born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1970. It is without any formal artistic education or knowledge of drawing that Alexandro produced his first creations using a ruler, markers, ballpoint pens and pencils on the materials at his disposal (like the back of an almanac). His work is to be compared to mediumistic art in the sense that, according to him, forces are exerted there of which he is only the instrument: “I am a channel that absorbs the messages of the cosmos”.

Since Magali Herrera and, before her, the creators from Brazilian psychiatrist Osorio Cesar’s collection, Latin America had not allowed us to plunge so deeply into the meanders of artistic creation.

First exhibited in Europe at the gallery in 2010 and presented at Art Paris and the Salon du Dessin Contemporain in the same year, the artworks of Alexandro García are already part of several major collections of art brut.