Mario García Torres
| Mario García Torres | |
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| Born | 1975 Monclova, Mexico |
| Residence | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
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Mario García Torres (born 1975 in Monclova) is a Mexican conceptual artist. He has used various media, including film, photography, sound, performance, and video as a means to create his art. His art explores the intricacies of the art system, mainly by looking at past events of conceptual arts history, targeting to show new perspectives on them and historiography. García Torres currently lives in Mexico City.
Mario García Torres was born in the Mexican city of Monclova in 1975. The interest of Mario Garcia Torres for art started a very young age, as he accompanied his mother in their hometown's museum, where she volunteered as a guide. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Monterrey in Mexico in 1998. While a student in Monterrey, he started getting interested in conceptual art. García Torres cited a group of his professors that were linked with American abstract expressionism as an influence in that direction. He continued his studies in the United States, and earned his Master of Fine Arts by the California Institute of the Arts in 2005, as a Fulbright grantee. In 2007 he received the Cartier Award at the Frieze Art Fair.
García Torres work negotiates obscure events associated with conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, with the use of a variety of media. His work, based on past events around the history of conceptual art, tries to create new ideas and meanings through them. García Torres uses minor events for the creation of his narratives, as he believes that "some of them still have the potential to trigger questions both regarding their own nature, and regarding historiography".
In "In Some Places I Had Seen Before Moving to L.A.", he presents locations around L.A. in an attempt to reproduce the image he had about the city, based in what he saw in films or conceptual art works. His first solo exhibition in the United States presented "What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax". It was triggered during a conversation about art concepts with Jan Mot, and was initiated as a historic research project covering a 1969 art project which was assigned to NSCAD University students in David Askevold's class by artist Robert Barry. García Torres' work consisted of black and white slides and produced a reunion of the 1969 project class.
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