Ernesto García Sánchez Cuban, b. 1989
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1989, Ernesto García Sánchez studied there at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and, later, at the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA). Throughout his career, Ernesto has explored the idea and the fractal object through perfect forms that break and multiply, creating a new order of patterns that become sacred.
From observation to practice, Ernesto García Sánchez is creatively obsessed with summarizing, condensing, and achieving synthesis. His strategy, broadly speaking, involves a reduction of imperfect geometries, generated with his hands, trying to build - with shapes and textures - abstract and minimalist objects that combine the different media he uses in his artistic process, until realizing the ideal result. This is achieved by arriving at what is possibly the simplest configuration.
During the years 2010 - 2012 he taught a free painting and drawing workshop for children in Havana. Parallel to his work as an artist, he is the founder of the Taller 62 project in the city of Merida, Yucatan. Taller 62 is a project that unifies an art studio, space for exhibitions. The initiative of this project is to create a space for artistic interaction in the community of the city of Mérida.
For Polimorfos, his first exhibition in Mérida, García Sánchez presents a series of works that, although they are made with the help of industrial tools, the hand of the edge can be evident in the subtle imperfection when trying to generate geometry from a human perspective.
The fundamental value of his work is precisely the doubt, the constant questioning. He proposes a questioning painting: a painting full of questions, a painting that asks the painting. They are constant visceral questions through the act of painting itself. Ernesto makes every effort to tell us that he is not interested in the answers (his or others), he is only interested in the questions that he constructs while intensely living the honesty of his painting. He often prefers silence, a silence that obviously also asks us.
