Alexandro García

Galerie Christian Berst presents a solo show dedicated to the works of the Uruguayan gardener, Alexandro García, who began to transcribe his ethereal visions following an encounter of the third kind – or avistamiento – that he experienced as a child. Worthy heir to magical realism, however, he goes beyond its scope: he speaks to us of an elsewhere offered to our projections and to the colonization of a new humanity through inhabited and saturated architectures.

Alexandro García reveals his ethereal visions to us in meticulously executed drawings mixing fantastic cities – seemingly weightless or about to dash into sidereal infinity – with the ballets of constellations that came to their encounter. They are about an elsewhere offered to our projections and the colonization of a new humanity: “we are not alone”.

The experience of seeing a UFO – called avistamiento in Latin America – provoked this creativity in this gardener born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1970. It is without any formal artistic education or knowledge of drawing that Alexandro produced his first creations using a ruler, markers, ballpoint pens and pencils on the materials at his disposal (like the back of an almanac). His work is to be compared to mediumistic art in the sense that, according to him, forces are exerted there of which he is only the instrument: “I am a channel that absorbs the messages of the cosmos”.