MARIO GARCIA TORRES
The work of Mario García Torres (b. 1975, Mexico) deals largely with locating and challenging the places of art. This interest has taken him on a peripatetic journey. He has considered from deserts to museums, where actual and imaginary artworks or institutions have been created. He has drawn inspiration from storages and mined archives for sources. Along the way, he has stumbled into limitations, whether these take the shape of secrets, forgetting or bureaucracy. He has also investigated time, because it is in time itself where art has often been sited. The artist’s wanderings have thus evolved from quests in search of a destination to surveys of art as incident or event. Exhibitions: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Pérez Art Museum (Miami), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 11 (Zurich), dOCUMENTA(13) (Kassel), São Paulo Biennial, Taipei Biennial, Yokohama Triennale, Venice Biennale. Artist's website |
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