OSCAR | GARCES

Based on simplicity of the shapes and color searching for a bold way of communicating human nature and spiritual laws.  Ripping off the need to make any subject realistic in its visual aesthetic to set free from artistic self pleasure and ego.  The artist finds comfort in the act of just leaving a mark to later enjoy just the smallest changes and palpitations that happen in every trace and stroke. This transitions occur due to specific conditions of the surroundings, thoughts, mood, and pulse of the artist. All of this factors alters and determines the final look of each mark witch ultimately has a tremendous effect on the overall image.  Taking painting to its roots is the goal, to understand in a deeper way the reason and nature of this primal self expression.  To answer the question of why do we carry this impulse that becomes a necessity? To withhold it, would be denying your nature and to unleash it would give you a strange since of relieve taking you to a level of awareness where the "imperfections and uneven lines" become the essential beauty and interest of the work.

Feels like writing, but the artist is quick to make clear that it is not. Signs, representations… of what? A mental process, a journey, from diverse points of origin through our individual timelines, our personal twists and turns. As a script emerges, something is set free, though it leaves a mark, an imprint. The artist’s essential playground is a space to explore geometric archetypes that can only be found inside one another; all are one. A sacred mandala? Images contract and expand and there is order, not chaos. No more chaotic than life emerging from the womb, contraction, expansion; a beating heart, where life is felt, contraction, expansion… an ever expanding universe, contracts only to further expand. We don’t know how to will it into action. A similar experience with ink takes form in this experiment by Oscar Garcés. It flows from a playful doodle, “el virus”, he calls it. And before you know it, connects with something else, an altered state of consciousness. Everything else disappears as it takes over.