Fernando García Vásquez

Fernando García Vásquez's work explores ideas concerning absence, silence, and their relationship to the re-presented image. It is also focused on highlighting different aspects of the national, traditional and local culture of the Colombian Caribbean.
Using traditional manual techniques, his series ‘El Eslabón Perdido’ (‘Missing link’) is made up of small format oil paintings, which are reminiscent of reproductions taken from the pages of an art history book. Familiar images are borrowed and their inhabitants removed, like the communities thrown adrift by the conflict in Colombia, the artist's nation. His work takes us towards an evocative act; we search for memories of an existence that is now gone. The images have become "naked paintings" that are full of paradoxes. What was once familiar becomes strange, what was funny can also feel ominous, and what was silent now speaks loudly.