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① Artwork:
El Portal (The Portal)
Alejandro García Contreras’ densely packed artworks synthesize imagery from legends, anime, pre-Hispanic symbology, supernatural beings, religion, and more. By merging the ancient with the contemporary, he connects truths across expansive timelines and reveals how humanity’s recurring symbols and beliefs express our deepest fantasies and nightmares. Contreras’ oeuvre guides us to a collective consciousness, creating a holistic ode to our infinite nature and encouraging us to embrace a new spiritual universality.
Alejandro García Contreras characterizes his creative work as a form of experimentation and dialogue between different materials and resources through mediums like painting, sculpture, photography, video, and graphics. His artistic projects are inspired and informed by contemporary popular culture, Mexican folklore, myth, occultism, religion, and other themes.
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③ Artist:
Alejandro García Contreras characterizes his creative work as a form of experimentation and dialogue between different materials and resources through mediums like painting, sculpture, photography, video, and graphics. His artistic projects are inspired and informed by contemporary popular culture, Mexican folklore, myth, occultism, religion, and other themes.
Alejandro García Contreras was born in 1982 in Tapachula Chiapas, Mexico. He earned his BA in Visual Arts from the National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Mexico City, Mexico.
Contreras has mounted solo exhibitions at Proyecto NASAL in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Gamma Galleria in Guadalajara, Mexico; David Castillo in Miami, FL; Albertz Benda in New York, NY; House of Gaga in Guadalajara, Mexico; Swivel Gallery in New York, NY; and others.
He is a two-time recipient of the FONCA / Young Creators Scholarship, and his work was the winning acquisition of the 2006 Artfest WTC.
