GALERÍA DEL PASEO

Lima | Peru
Punta del Este | Uruguay
Director | Silvia Arrozés

Galería del Paseo is directed by Silvia Arrozés. It was founded in 1998 in Montevideo and in 2004 it settled in Manantiales, Punta del Este. In 2015, it opened a new space in Miraflores, Lima, Peru. Since then, it has developed an exhibition program aimed primarily at promoting contemporary Uruguayan, Peruvian and Latin American artists. It participates in international fairs and has held exhibitions in several countries in Latin America and the United States.

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BIO

Guillermo García Cruz (1988, Montevideo) is a Visual Arts professor at the IPA (Instituto de Profesores Artigas) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has also studied at Washington Studio School and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., USA. In Uruguay, his work has been exhibited individually at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo in Montevideo and internationally in exhibitions in Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Timisoara, and Tianjin. Among various accolades, in 2019, he was recognized globally as one of the 12 emerging artists to watch by the Ibero-American site Arte Informado.

Currently living and working between the United States and Latin America, García Cruz has developed an interdisciplinary body of work that spans painting, photography, sculpture, action, and installation. His work explores contemporary approaches to geometric issues and the conceptual interpretations stemming from their formal disruption. Recently, his work has been included in the collections of CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, USA), Jorge Pérez Collection (USA), the Collection of Northwestern University (Chicago, USA), DC Collection (Bogotá, Colombia), Luis Bassat Collection (Barcelona), Alberto and Ginette Rebaza Collection (Lima), and the MACA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry, Uruguay), among other international private collections.

STATEMENT

Guillermo García Cruz's exhibition for ESTE ARTE 2025 presents a sophisticated interplay of constructivist structures reinterpreted through the lens of contemporary technology. The artist explores the dynamics of image construction in an age dominated by information processing, where screens serve as artifacts that erode the image with unpredictable distortions. García Cruz employs chromatic pigments that react to signal adjustments, allowing the speed of information to manifest as a disruption in the visual narrative. Time itself becomes a force of disruption within the image, as vibrations create a tension between the presence and absence of form. The work invites viewers to engage with the space between these moments of disappearance, where the potential for construction arises.

This narrative is further deepened through García Cruz's sculptures, where black marble pieces are subtly altered with fine lines that define their identities. These pieces, along with three specially designed volumes, extend the exhibition’s key concepts into the realm of spatial experience. The inclusion of functional furniture transforms these pieces into dynamic, living elements within the exhibition space. Through the vibrational distortions of geometric forms, García Cruz captures the dynamic structures of contemporary aesthetics, offering a poignant reflection on the impact of technology and information in shaping visual culture.

Curator: Jacqueline Lacasa