Cintia Garcia

Can a line remain a line and nothing more?

My work began with this simple question. Born in Argentina and trained in visual arts, my practice developed through a long engagement with drawing, repetition, and rule-based procedures. Since moving to Europe, my work has gradually shifted from gesture toward structure.

Rather than representing external subjects, I construct simple systems—repeated lines, tensioned strings, or grid-based processes—to observe how order appears and how it begins to dissolve. Each work follows a set of constraints that allow subtle variations and interruptions to occur.

I work on linen prepared with thin layers of gesso so the surface remains present. The ground is not neutral; it carries traces and irregularities that participate in the image. Emptiness functions as an active field rather than a void.

Through repetition the line gradually ceases to describe and begins to organize space, allowing the image to exist less as expression and more as a system where perception can slow down and unfold.

2017 — MFA, Master of Contemporary Artistic Creation, University of Barcelona, Spain

2015 — PAC, Contemporary Artistic Practices Program, Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires

2014 — Artistas y dibujos: de Da Vinci a De Caro, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

2012 — BA in Visual Arts (Drawing), National University of the Arts (UNA / former IUNA), Buenos Aires

2026 — Artist 360, Madrid (Virago Gallery)
2025 — Philosophical Art Space, group exhibition, Xiamen, China
2025 — Culture Crash in Art, EOS Art Museum, Xiamen, China

2024 — Fragmentos en diálogo, Espai Cenit Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2023 — En qué ando, Nauart Residency, Barcelona, Spain

2022 — Ruta de l’Art, Castelló d’Empúries, Spain.
2021 — Ruta de l’Art, Castelló d’Empúries, Spain.
2021 — 8 Artists, Eco Museu La Farinera, Castelló d’Empúries, Spain

2019 — Resistencia, Xefo Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2018 — Sobre el suelo y debajo, Petit Gallery, Lleida, Spain

2017 — Exit-Exist, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

2013 — Maecenas Sverige International Exhibition, Ada Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain2013 — If I Were Fire, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy

2006 — National Visual Arts Hall, National Palace of Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005 — Conjeturas Paradojales, Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004 — La Papelera de San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina