Alejandro Garmendia

Alejandro Garmendia (1959-2017) was a photographer and painter born in San Sebastián, Spain. He lived and worked in France and New York. In his art, he used imaginative images and physically impossible objects that questioned the aesthetic structure of landscape and architecture. His works invite the viewer to a different perception of reality by breaking logical connections with reality. He received his degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao in 1985. Throughout his career, he had solo exhibitions at Galería Masha Prieto and Galería Antonio Machón in Madrid, and also exhibited his works at Generous Miracles Gallery in New York and McClain Gallery in Houston. In 2007, he participated in the group exhibition "Perceptions" at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, along with Andreas Gursky, Jan Fabre, Per Barclay, and Man Ray. The artist's works are in the permanent collections of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián. ​