A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates. Emmanuel García uses this literary figure to form his series “Figurama”; in this, his concern focuses on the recovery of the personal file, the exercise of composition and drawing and the use of a graphic code created from the collection of images inherent to popular culture that includes, among others, the era of gold and silver of the North American comic, the popular Latin American cartoon, and advertising of the early twentieth century. García’s intention is to activate the memory of the viewer through drawing, humor and irony.
