About the artist
The world of Gonzalo García (1985) is one of the eccentric and disturbing. An artist who combines his artistic excellence with an exploration of horror and the monstrous—a reflection of contemporary society, which, having lost its emotional center of gravity, seeks it out on the margins, in extremism, or in madness. Influenced by Pop Art and Francis Bacon, the work of the Veracruz-born painter meticulously describes the universal entropic, regressive, and disintegrating tendency found in all living things to return to the resting state of dead matter. A fantastic imagination that liquefies forms, leaving a sensation of repugnance, humiliation, and misery. The narrative drama of his images, both dizzying and somber, is that of a decadent and brutal contemporary reality, where utopian dreams of an indeterminate freedom turn into nightmares, where the segmentations, fragmentations, and decompositions inherent in hybridism exude a bitter toxicity and ultimately feed on blood. Art where realism, fantastical and dreamlike, is taken to its extreme, touching the shores of primitive narcissism, where affective identification becomes ambivalent, to the point of wanting to incorporate the object of desire by devouring it.
Alberto Espinoza Orozco
José Gonzalo Garcia Muñoz was born in Puebla, Puebla in 1985.
Currently lives in Mexico City.
Resume
He studied a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at the Allende Institute University, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
With over 10 years of professional experience evolving his unique figurative style on different historical and social themes, he has had 7 solo exhibitions in Mexico, and more than 20 collective exhibitions including several museums in Querétaro, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Sweden, Spain, and recently in New York, USA.
Selected in several biennials throughout his career, including the last XVII Rufino Tamayo Biennial from 2016-2017 and with honorable mention in the current "José and Tomás Chávez Morado" Biennial in Salamanca.
In 2013, she held a residency at the Watercolor Museum in Sweden, near Gothenburg, and that same year, she participated in the first edition of the "Millennium as Seen by Art" project, alongside artists such as Daniel Lezama and Arturo Rivera.
In 2015, he carried out the project "The Museum of Conspirators" in Querétaro City, which consists of 300 m2 of mural painting that Gonzalo directed.
Currently holding the "Young Creators, FONCA" Scholarship for the second time, in the discipline of painting, and at the end of this year he will exhibit in a pop-up show of young contemporary Mexican painting in Los Angeles.
2018
Honorable mention
2nd. José and Tomás Chávez Morado Centro-Occidente Prize for Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving
Gto Arts Center, Salamanca.
FONCA Young Creators Scholarship, 2nd Period
Painting discipline
"Secret gay box" (Spring/Break Art Show)
4 Times Square, NY
Invited by curator and art advisor John Wolf, as part of the Armory Week Art Fair in New York
"Land of offerings"
Solo Exhibition at the Libertad Gallery in Querétaro, Qro
2017
Rufino Tamayo Biennial
Selected artist. Oaxaca Contemporary Museum, Oaxaca, and Tamayo Museum, Mexico City
"Portraits of Power"
Solo Exhibition, at Punto Centra Gallery, Mty, NL
2016
5th Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial
Selected artist. Pedro Coronel Museum, Zacatecas, Zacatecas
2015
"Conspirators Museum" in the city of Querétaro. 300 m2 mural painting project.
Creative Director of the mural painting team, in Querétaro, Qro
2013
FONCA Fellow
Painting project "The New Disasters", second period 2012-2013
The Millennium Seen Through Art (First Edition)
Contemporary painting collection by Grupo Milenio, TV, print and radio, Mexico City
Residency at the Swedish Watercolor Museum
Artistic exchange for Mexican artists at the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, Gothenburg, through the Querétaro City Museum