Ricardo García
(Granada, 1963). Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in 1990, he produced most of his work in this city, alternating with stays in Paris and London in the late 90s. For more than two decades, he has combined the practice of art with teaching, to which he currently devotes himself exclusively, with forays into graphic design and collaborations with artists from other disciplines; In particular, his work is increasingly linked to poetry or contemporary classical music, as his work delves into the compositional keys of color, rhythm or time, natural processes in these other arts. Painting is the backbone of all his artistic production, along with drawing, photography, engraving and installations.
He develops the fundamental part of his work in vast thematic series animated by a desire for knowledge whose medium is the compositional study of the work of art, as aesthetics and as ethics; his creative discourse explores between the objective and the subjective, the rational and the casual, the sought and the found. Starting from a painting that appealed at its beginnings to more lyrical gestural and chromatic resources, with a compositional support closely linked to constructivism, his language evolves by immersing himself in formal and significant analyzes that naturally derive in structural and essentialist approaches. , in which confinement expressively allows the intense poetics that underlies it to filter through.
More than twenty-five years have passed since his first exhibition at the Palacio de los Condes de Gabia in Granada, and it has been followed by about twenty personal exhibitions in Andalusian cities and European capitals, as well as numerous exhibitions collectives in galleries and institutional places. . His work is present in the public collections of the Junta de Andalucía, the University of Granada, the Diputación de Granada and Caja Granada, as well as in private Spanish, European and American collections.
