Casiano García, a painter from Guerrero born in Huehuetán, learned from a young age to cultivate the field and discovered shapes, color and light around him.
That with great intensity nested in his conscience and were at the same time the necessary resource to guide his vocation, which over the years would make him an artist who has not forgotten his origins and who constantly draws on them to find the images of their dreams.
TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF, ABOUT YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCES THAT LEADED YOU TO GET INTO PAINTING.
Very early I realized that I had a knack for drawing and whenever I found a space to exercise what would later become my job, I did it, to the point of occupying even other people's walls. Painting became for me something everyday, necessary and almost intuitive. My adolescence reinforced my penchant for painting and there came a time when I decided to leave Huehuetán to go in search of my destiny.
WERE YOU THEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ESSENTIAL FOR YOUR LIFE?
Yes, and I found it. It was a long journey in which I discovered the mastery of the line, the proportion, the secrets of light and color. In 1973 I started painting. In Acapulco I started my work in the Garden of Art; I did the journey as a self-taught person and from that experience I came to the conclusion that it was necessary to work with the idea of finding a style, a form of self-expression. In my mind the childhood images persisted in which the land, the field, the flowers, the water and the color appeared as a constant ...
WERE YOU ALREADY IN THE SEARCH FOR-WHAT YOUR DREAMS HAD BEEN?
So it was, after three or four years of starting to paint, to recognize what was my own and what was strange, I returned to my town and the familiar became endearing to me. It was the place where the earth had worked, the place where I had my first experience of observation.
There I recognize the furrows, the plots, the plants and specifically the flowers; It was about the essential elements to create the atmosphere; He already had the tools, the ability, and the desire to apply what he had learned.
Then the Cassian was born, who resorts to pointillism that he had observed in the paintings of the Impressionists. It is at that moment when nature invades my senses and I take a definitive leap looking for my own plastic language.
COULD IT BE SAY THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO TRANSMIT AN ENCOURAGING, OPTIMISTIC MESSAGE THROUGH ART?
In a way it is like that, because it is something that has to do with the future, with something that perhaps we do not always have within our reach, but that is there present in the dream images that I am trying to recover. It is ultimately a love affair in the broadest sense.
COULD YOU THINK OF AN OBSESSION FOR FLOWERS?
I believe that what I do has to do with harmony. Flowers are a superior expression of harmony, of the sum of color.
My work has gone in that direction, in discovering the most difficult thing, which was precisely creating the atmosphere, thinking that man is faced with the wonder of a universe created by a superior being.
WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE EXPOSED IN MANY PLACES, EVEN IN EUROPE, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT IT?
I can say that I am very happy, that I feel more confident to continue with my work. The trips have given me the opportunity to visit museums and galleries, to know the work of the greats and to continue with my habit of observing and learning as I did from my first days.
FROM WHAT YOU SAID, SEEMING YOU ARE NOT IN A HURRY.
I have never been in a hurry, I have learned to wait, my work is an experience in which time is important, but not decisive. From the beginning I knew that you had to persist, work hard, every day of the week, every day of the year.
Source: Aeroméxico Tips No. 5 Guerrero / Fall 1997
