Alejandro Garmendia: El Ingenio Revolucionario
Villa Magdalena
2024




Published by Villa Magdalena
Designed by American Art Catalogues
Text by Cy Schnabel
Hardcover
20.3 x 26 cm (8.25 x 10.25 inches)
108 pages
Edition of 300
ISBN: 979-8-89342-369-3
Alejandro Garmendia (San Sebastián, 1959 - 2017) possessed a subversive attitude and an ingenious approach to the aesthetic structure and formal aspects of landscape and architecture. He commandeered them to a point of departure where a plethora of images manifest themselves in a variety of ways, documenting the non-existent and creating the physically impossible. Phantasmagorical objects shift, transforming what we are looking at into a world where scale and plane are mixed together until gravity ceases to exist. Scenes that do not necessarily conform to one particular style, ultimately present a distanced metaphysical vision of an emotional character filled with solitude and melancholy; that brings us into a new painted irreality.
Alejandro Garmendia (1959-2017) lived and worked in numerous cities including Paris, San Sebastián, Bilbao, Madrid and New York. Significant solo exhibitions have taken place at Galería Masha Prieto (Madrid, Spain, 1988); Galería Antonio Machón (Madrid, Spain, 1994); Galería Colón XVI (Bilbao, Spain, 2001); Generous Miracles Gallery (New York City, United States, 2001); McClain Gallery (Houston, United States, 2007); Alejandro Garmendia: Paisajes, enigma y melancolía (Sala Kubo Museum, San Sebastián, Spain, 2018). Significant group shows include: Illusive Places (Pace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 2024), Años 90 (San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián, Spain, 2023); Percepciones. Itinerario selectivo (Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2003).