sr García

I love the simplicity vs. complexity in sr García's works—the pale backgrounds with very detailed subjects in the foreground. Collage can often get too heavy, too cluttered, and it's artists like this that really know how to use the perfect amount of both.

Name (Real or Screename): sr García
URL (Blog, Website): www.elsrgarcia.com
Location (Where are you from?): Madrid, Spain.

Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Always continue learning.

Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Ground search in old bookstores and El Rastro, old magazines, postcards, books.

Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I do not remember very well. For 7-8 years?. I started when I saw for the first time the work of Diego Lara.


Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I do not live doing my pictures, my real work is as a creative in an advertising agency.

Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: None, one of my frustrations is not having studied and focused on art, but I like to match.

Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: Delivery of a generic idea of what I want to teach. Looking and seeking parts I need from my boxes of clippings, and paste. Sometimes I would improvise and experiment more from scratch, but I usually have a problem before and I have a more or less clear idea I want to reach.

Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: I'm very happy with my series Bob and María.

Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Brossa, Chema Madoz, Diego Lara, Sean Mackaoui.

Thanks sr García!

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