The inventive and ingenious imagination of Georges Gara together with his sharp curiosity, incite him to exploit the various possibilities of an unusual material, fluid “like honey” – says the artist -, which hardens with the adjunction of a component, and becomes icy, keeping though shine and transparency.
A work executed with many coats permits to the artist to integrate into the liquid material, objects of diverse origin like ropes, iron threads of different size and thickness, objects of recuperation, coloured sisal hemps, or any other material, sometimes very strange. These elements altogether, inscribed into the deepness of the coats, and then included into a block of square form, are like hidden treasures, requiring the touching, but the privilege however of the only eye.
Another series of works, composed with opaque and solid sheets of plexiglas, undergoing the trial of fire, suddenly come to life, undulate, get brown tinted, and sometimes, with the effect of an intense heat, melt, creating open spots.
Between fire and ice, allying opacity and light, colour and non colour, these works oscillate also between fullness and emptiness, haphazard and thinking, sensuality and harshness.
The astonishing work of Georges Gara is also expressed through another register. An ensemble of paintings, made of concrete, affirm a materiality with high relief which interpellate. They open an unexpected horizon, adding to the originality and the ability of the sculptor, who reveals to be also an excellent painter.
Georges Gara lives and works in Lausanne. Since 1964 he is regularly exhibiting in Hungary, Switzerland and France. His works were namely presented in the Grand Palais in Paris, Musée Jenish in Vevey and Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. They are included in private collections of the Union de Banques Suisses and the Municipality of Lausanne.
On cover ; “Larguer les amarres”, plexiglas with inclusions, 2018, 34 x 34 x 6 cm
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