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Garcia-Alvarez’s Crossings

The T-shape, cross formation here is ubiquitous, sometimes with spiderlike radiating rods, or hanging clusters of parallel strips. As twisting or emerging beams, or swinging bars, they have a latent energy that usually restlessly rotates around a static centre – a fixed core. As activating (traversing) vectors in space they are energised by a thin organic paint application, and by the work’s negative spaces and shadows on the wall.

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The Everyday Existentialist

ln the first of a new artist mentor series, Linda Tyler talks to Alberto Garcia-Alvarez and the students – among them Judy Millar and Stephen Bambury – who were so profoundly influenced by his intellectual rigour, philosophical curiosity and commitment to living the life of an artist in a culture more steeped in rugby than art.

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