Mauricio Gattás is a Mexican realist painter living and working in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
Mauricio has over 20 years of career dedicating himself mainly to painting and installation. He has been trained in important academies such as Ximena Subercaseaux, Saint-Étienne School of Fine Arts in France and DeCinti Villalón in Madrid and is now a painting teacher. His work has been exhibited in group shows in Canada, France and Mexico and individually at the MARCO museum in Monterrey and MACO in Oaxaca and is part of multiple private collections.
The pictorial constructions that emerge from the imagination of the artist speak a lot about his being, his thoughts, and his feelings. His paintings and installations show his powerful imagination and are full of his impressions and memories.
His work brings together in mostly large formats the stories of everyday life, objects, settings, still life and landscapes.