Opening remarks by Abaseh Mirvali, international curator and Artistic Director of vienna contemporary.

Fernando García Correa (Mexico City, *1958) first studied painting and sculpture in his native Mexico at the La Esmeralda University in Mexico City (1978–80), and then in Paris, where he graduated with distinction in drawing from the École des Beaux-Arts (1980–83) and lived until 1991. His work has received numerous awards, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2010 and a national scholarship from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores in 2015. His works are part of numerous private and public collections, including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil in Mexico and the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez in Zacatecas. Fernando García Correa lives and works in Mexico City.

Already during his studies, he dedicated himself to abstraction, and his works are direct engagements with the traditions of non-representational art and reflections on its potential. Although Correa works in series, he does not see them as closed entities, but rather as reservoirs from which new works can continuously be generated. He describes his work as cyclical, as a continuum. Cross-references emerge from his artistic process, in which he pauses, returns, and attempts to establish a distance from what he has created in order to develop an openness that is reflected in the diversity of his works. Connections arise between individual works within a series or between different series, through elements, materials, or compositions that the artist revisits. This is also evident in the techniques he employs, including collage.

In the series Gambetas Y Concreciones, for example, he works with dried acrylic forms that originate on his painting palette. Once hardened, Correa applies these organic shapes to his works on paper, which oscillate between drawing and painting. The relationship between the support and the material is explored over time in the artistic process, creating a network that is continually expanded.