Concept
Xavi Garcia
Monóvar (Alicante) 1974. Graduated in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University San Carlos de Valencia.
Xavi Garcia's professional career is characterized by his frenetic artistic production, in which his series merge and coexist for periods of time.
In recent years he has worked with the series "citizens" and "icons" from which have emerged large format works in which the artist merges concepts and analyzes the society in which we live and the relationship of the individual with his environment.
Thus, Xavi in his works questions the relationship of citizens with social networks, how this "virtual self" has as much value as the "personal self". The need to publish on the network everything that happens around us and the self-esteem of the individual based on numbers of "likes". Xavi presents us with a new way of relating to the world, he presents us with the birth of a new type of citizen.
His solid work has led him to hold exhibitions in New York, Hong Kong, London, Rome, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, etc. and his work is spread all over the world and is part of important private collections.
His collections coexist with the urban landscape as a common denominator, where he reflects on how the different stimuli that surround us influence who we are: advertising, press, economy, fashion, etc., mold us at will and create unipensadores citizens, equal in their actions and consumers of the same product. He makes clear reference to the culture of the image and social networks, the culture or generation of the selfie, the pose in front of cell phones and the need to capture and tell in our cell phones each of the events that happen around us, this social paranoia that has transformed the citizen and the way of relating to each other.
Xavi García, in his contemporary artistic practice, is a conceptual artist: for his strategies; for his appropriationism, from icons of culture, image or language, which he introduces in his cut-and-paste; for his accumulation of narratives and references (the street, music, television, cinema, history) for his way of acting, the superimposition of images, ideas, experiences, data; for deconstructing art in an absolutely original way: he paints, erases, repaints over the erased, crosses out, pastes, covers with images, modifies...
His work tells us about his universe, it is his vital diary, a painting to exorcise personal and social concerns. His way of working the images twists the words, crossing them out, changing the letters, inverting them, eluding them. His reading is almost natural for today's internet and sms user. The found object becomes art: cut and paste from different media. It is a child of the internet age: just like that screen with many browser windows open and different applications running at the same time. Contradictions and oppositions: empty/full, color-no color, images-text.
