2015

PAISAJES OLVIDADOS

Galería de la Alianza Francesa, Mexico City

FORGOTTEN LANDSCAPES

Paintings by Ana García Alcocer dwell in an odd spot between representational and abstract painting. Images referring us to the ordinary world are found in her work: bodies, flowers, strange looking creatures. Paintings by Ana Garcia Alcocer are almost like getting the subconscious X-rayed: rare and arbitrary figures detach from their natural environment and get drawn out of ordinary life to merge into Ana´s thinking and feelings. Figures will never be the same again. They emerge from this artistic communion filled with significance, and turning into symbols of private and self significance, and turning into symbols of a private and selfbiographic language. Thus, in this crossroad between expressionism and surrealism, Ana´s paintings represent an entirely subjective vision of the World. Perhaps, we should neither talk about "a world" or "a vision", but rather a large number of worlds built from images reclaimed by artistic imagination.
In the "forgotten landscapes" serie, Ana portrays the dreams and fears of her childhood that come back to her regularly but not often.
"I understand them now and kind of like them. I´m a forgotten landscape myself sometimes".
Such odd metamorphoses give raise to Ana Garcia Alcocer plastic poetry. It is poetry arising from the tension between representational images and abstract forms: between the objective, recognizable reality and a domain of individual sensations and experiences.
And just as with any other poetic image, these paintings become a window through which we can see and share the artist´s vision of the World.

Anne-Marthe Hogewoning