GORKA GARCIA

Gorka García is one of the gallery's youngest and most promising artists, who strongly focuses on paintings featuring uninhabited landscapes in which the poetics of ruin and a profound compositional and formal analysis of his works are the common denominator.

Gorka's work seeks to delve into and reflect on the relationship between the various utopian proposals put forward throughout history by great thinkers such as Plato, Rousseau, Comte, and Marx, among others, and the somewhat "dystopian" world in which we live today. To do so, he uses the aesthetics of the Renaissance—a distinctly utopian era—as a paradigm of utopia, and various contemporary cities devastated by war as a paradigm of dystopia.

Ultimately, this is a contrast that is both conceptual and aesthetic. In the case of the former, we could speak of extremely studied, harmonious, linear, and colorful compositions; and in the latter, of highly disordered and anarchic compositions, in which the piles of rubble or the ruined buildings lack any logic or adhere to a clear perspective. Added to this is the rather monochromatic nature of the wide range of grays the artist uses to reflect those places immersed in various war conflicts.

A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, Gorka spent a year in Italy thanks to a scholarship that allowed him to study one of his academic years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna. After university, his training continued in the studio of painter Alejandro Quincoces, and he received, among others, the "Pensioned Painters Scholarship of the Quintanar Palace" (Segovia) and the "Antonio Gala Foundation for Young Creators" scholarship (Córdoba). He has also participated in numerous editions of FLECHA and Art Madrid, as well as in the GetxoArte Emerging Arts Salon. In 2012, he published a catalogue raisonné of his work with texts by Antonio Gala, Alejandro Quincoces, Juan Gómez Bárcena, and Javier Vicedo Alós: "Metacal: Geometry of Dusk."