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Daniel García was born in 1958. Lives and works in Rosario, Argentina
In Daniel García’s paintings, violence’s allegoric senses bond with an acid humor. By placing them under a magnifying glance, he isolates worldly objects, or anatomical details. The reiterative process of painting and erasing leaves its trace on the canvas, working as a sign of each work’s tortured history.
In a certain way, his paintings are made up of a poetics of the necessary: the images that reside in them are “surviving images” that bear the mark of perseverance.
María Eugenia Spinelli
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Erased Head (2007), acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 c
In the work of García, the physicality of what he creates is as profoundly meaningful as the symbolic message of the image. These pictures are the end products of an almost obsessively meticulous investigation into the possibilities of the painted surface. Layers of pigment are laboriously applied and then scraped away. Each of these scrapings or erasures leaves an essence or a shadow behind it, from which is built up a seemingly ancient palimpsest wall of rich texture, revealing to the observer the veritable birth process of the work of art. The artist's fastidiousness of technique mirrors the terseness and directness with which he communicates his ideas.
Daniel García's art speaks a hermetic language which, in the manner of the Apostles at the moment of Pentecost enlightenment, is comprehended by all who look with care at his work.
Edward J. Sullivan
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In my work, relationship with representation varies from one painting to another. Sometimes my paintings are more mimetic, others more symbolic or allusive. I like thinking about my paintings as models, in the scientific sense of the term: a description or analogy used to help visualize something that cannot be directly observed.
All of them come from a previous image, whether other artists' works, photographs, ads, scientific book illustrations or my own drawings. Even when I make a portrait, I never work from nature. I work after images that surround me and seduce me.
Sex Doll (2007), acrylic on canvas, 68 x 200 cm
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