Flavio Garciandía’s presence in Monterrey for more than a decade had a profound impact on the local community, not only through his artistic practice but also through his intellectual work. His oeuvre continues a key line of reflection that emerged at the beginning of the “Cuban avant-garde of the 1980s,” which challenged the strict cultural policies associated with socialist realism on the island in order to generate critical responses to Western culture. Therefore, the work developed over the last three decades can be understood as an ironic, utopian, and unattainable construction of the confrontation between major Western creators and Latin American art.

This important exhibition brings together works ranging from early hyperrealist paintings to installations linked to Caribbean kitsch, including artist books and a wide range of pictorial production in which elements of Latin American cultures engage in an ironic dialogue with the conceptual postulates of artists such as Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Robert Ryman, and Ad Reinhart, among others.