Mammal

The large-scale canvas Mamífero (Mammal) offers a style open to the observer’s interpretation. However, the artist identifies it through the title, which speaks of the indelible stamp of childhood memory, built with recollections of a peasant influence familiarized with zoology, which materializes through a spontaneous painting, with loose spots and brushstrokes, the collage with pieces of animal skin, where emotion flows freely on the canvas.

Garea turns to caused and manipulated accidents as a resource with which his aesthetic expression takes shape during the creative process, until he reaches the desired result. The work forms part of the first lot of paintings acquired in 1994, and is one of the few abstract paintings that were included in the collection at that time.