Horacio García Rosas
Statement
The work of Horacio García Rosas moves between abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction. His work is offered to us as a vigorous struggle between a gesture that does not stop moving and a poetic air that does not require words to express itself.
In his paintings we see, instantly, that something moves vertiginously in them. We do not know for sure what things are moving, but we notice movement, a lot of movement. There are forms that move, intertwine, rush, rise, collapse. There are shapes and colors moving on the surface of the painting. Those colors, those shapes constitute an almost audible rhythm, that is to say, almost musical.
García Rosas's painting wants to apprehend the reality that surrounds us and to which we belong; but also that which he calls "my inner nature", that is to say, its psychic, perceptual, spiritual constitution: its depths, its meanders, its secret corridors, its ghosts, its uncertainty. It is necessary to contemplate these works with great attention to find the "open, sesame" that opens the entrance to them and thus glimpse what it wants to tell us.
Bio
Horacio García Rosas (Monterrey, NL, MX) lives and works in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico; he is a visual artist, art instructor, and cultural promoter. Garcia’s work is focused on abstract painting. Garcia completed his formal artistic training at the Ruben Herrera School, Saltillo, Coahuila. He then continued to develop his artistic work under the tutelage of Maestro Fernando Flores Sánchez at the AGORA, Casa de la Cultura in Saltillo. During the 80s, Garcia completed various workshops in Oaxaca, including the atelier of Maestro Shinszaburo Takeda and Luis Velasco. During that same time, Garcia also worked at the Rufino Tamayo Workshop. Garcia has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including “Forma” (1986) and “Los Príncipes” in Oaxaca Gallery, Oaxaca. "10 in Yaugul" (1991) Museum of Cultures, Saltillo Coahuila; "E-TERRA" (1995) Casas de la Cultura de Saltillo, Piedras Negras, San Pedro and Monclova Coahuila. “Beyond Color" (2010), Casa Purcell Cultural Center and "Chronicle of Time" (2021), Rubén Herrera Museum, Saltillo, Coahuila. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and his work has earned several distinctions, including: Honorable Mention at Centro de Arte Vitro (1983), Oaxaca de Juárez City Award (1987); Inclusion in the Tierra Adentro Magazine (1996). He teaches art courses and workshops, and lectures on contemporary and Mexican art.