Sliding Colors Pink & Yellow Print

Painting: Acrylic ink on cotton paper. Inspired on Mark Rothko's floating shapes. Cintia García allows elements of chance to dictate the composition of the painting. She begins each work by tracing paint directly onto the paper. From there, her process is highly technical and laborious, as she covers the surface of the work with straight networks of line and shape. García has described her abstract paintings as “mind-maps”—visual representations of her emotional state while working on a given piece. She does not predetermine the composition of a work, but rather allows visceral tics and emotional compulsions to guide her painting. It is a meditative, intensely physical process. ‘I have to wait for the right moment to draw some lines,’ she has said. ‘Sometimes it takes days and weeks to find the right state of mind. My breathing needs to be absolutely under control.’ Her elaborate and often repetitive patterns create moments of tension and release as they lead the viewer across the paper. This work is about experiencing, getting rid of the ego and to reduce any need of expression to the repetition of the line in only one direction, the vertical. I wanted to overflow my mind in an attempt to freeing myself from thinking beyond gesture and breathing. The paper is Arches Watercolour, 156 lb , Cold Pressed. This artwork was painted with Schmincke AeroColor and Liquitex Medium. Framed on request ten days late.