TECHNOLOGY AND IMAGINATION: GUILLERMO GARCÍA-CRUZ IN MIAMI

In this work, his most ambitious exploration beyond the canvas, Uruguayan-born Guillermo Garcia-Cruz examines the impact of technology on contemporary life through metaphor. He uses pillars of varying sizes to express strong contrasts between the organic and inorganic matter, as well as dynamic and static forms.

Guillermo Garcia-Cruz revisits the Latin American tradition of geometric abstract art to reflect on a contemporary reality mediated by technology. He reimagines the rectangle to represent contemporaneity in a minimal and universal way. His rectangles deviate from their natural paths, representing how our current reality is not perceived in a linear way. By breaking and interlacing these rectangular forms, he brings the concept of the digital “glitch” into the physical realm. Garcia-Cruz invites us to reflect on how, in an era of exponential change, traditional structures have disintegrated to pave the way for new ideas.

As spectators move through the exhibition space, their reflections are mirrored and distorted in the stainless-steel surface of the pillars. This invites the audience to question the common limits of perception and reality. Through this distortion, the pillars evoke a sense of standing in an alternate dimension. In Divergent Structure, Garcia Cruz invites us to enter a world where the familiar is fractured, creating a new visual language that challenges our perceptions of space, structure, and the digital age.

Guillermo García-Cruz (1988, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a professor of Visual Arts at the IPA, Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been part of the Washington Studio School and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, USA. At the national level, his work has been exhibited individually at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo, and internationally in exhibitions in Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Lisbon and Tianjin. Recently, his work became part of the CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA; PAMM – Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA; Collection of Chicago Northwestern University, USA; Luis Bassat Collection, Barcelona; Alberto and Ginette Rebaza Collection, Lima; MACA (Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art), Uruguay; among other international private collections.

Divergent Structure. Exhibition by Guillermo Garcia-Cruz.

Until March 1, 2025.

Piero Atchugarry Gallery. 5520 NE 4^th Avenue, Miami, United States.