Gonzalo Endara Crow

As a child, Endara Crow was amazed by trains since his grandfather worked at the railroad; this became an inspiration for his masterpiece, in which he depicts a flying train—hence the title—that blends into a colorful mountainous landscape.

Some of his pieces encompass elements of painting and sculpture both such as "El Cerro de la Iglesia" (1985) an acrylic work enclosed inside a wood portal.

Various art historians and critics have referred to his work as magical realism, a term often used when speaking of twentieth-century Latin American literature.

Just as in magical realist texts, paintings by Endara Crow seek to expand the categories of what is real so as to encompass myth.

As in the magical realist texts of Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo Endara Crow's paintings weave in fantastic elements with deadpan presentation transforming the unlikely into certain reality with a subtle mechanism: the treatment of light.