Fernando García Ponce

Architect of the Breakaway Generation

Abstract

Fernando García Ponce is invariably associated to the artistic production of a 20th Century period in Mexico, characterized by social changes, new ways of looking at the world, searching expressions, and raised voices of other truths. This was widely spread, renowned and identified as part of the Mexican art’s “Breakaway Generation”. His abstract work, collages, watercolors or pieces with mixed or alternative techniques, have been published in books and specialized reviews and, nowadays, his paintings can be found in galleries and contemporary art museums. The same cannot be said about his work as an architect. Besides the spatial conception related to this discipline, as well as geometry, were permanently present in his painting, this article covers his facet as an architect creator of spaces and forms. His whole domain of the functionality and the structural logic necessaries for the optimal materialization of ideas were present in his work, mainly developed in his hometown, Mérida, Yucatán.