![]() ![]() That night, the house at Tepexpan 14, in Mexico City’s sleepy cobblestoned neighborhood of Coyoacán, was transformed into the first Museo Dinámico, conceived by Larrosa and former cultural official Miguel Salas Portugal. They hung abstract paintings on the walls, placed sculptures in unexpected nooks and crevices, and used staircases and windows as backdrops for stagings and dance performances. Installation consisting of 1 sculpture (acrylic on cardboard), 1 painting (gel ink and acrylic on canvas) 2 sheets of typewritten paper (red ink on paper), 1 sheet of overexposed photographic paperĭuring the day of September 6, 1962, a group of young, avant-garde, then anti-establishment artists occupied the rooms, hallways, and gardens of an odd-looking house of unconventional proportions and geometries designed by Manuel Larrosa. ![]() (The Importance of Everyday Life (A Fragmented Tale About the Brief History of the Museo Dinamico in Mexico)), n.d. La importancia de la cotidianeidad (Una narrativa fragmentada sobre la breve historia del Museo Dinámico) The work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Wiels in Brussels in the artist's solo show entitled Illusion Brought Me Here (2018/2019), at Jan Mot's booth in Art Basel in 2019 and subsequently at the gallery. These characters perform small actions, referencing a specific place or moment in time, to reflect the artist’s memories. Visible through the mobile app, avatars of people influential to Garcia Torres’ career take the form of 3D holographic portraits that appear in the space. Within the project, he recognises the participation of a number of collaborators - writers, curators, photographers, musicians and gallerists - who have contributed to the development of his work. As Mario Garcia Torres describes, it aims to acknowledge the fact that works of art are not the product of one artist’s efforts but rather a combination of personal impulses influenced by the interests and ideas of others. Illusion Brought Me Here is an augmented-reality installation. On the occasion of Jan Mot’s Art Basel OVR 2020 presentation he further developed the work by creating a virtual video screening room.Īugmented reality installation, smart phone appĭimensions variable, certificate of authenticity Garcia Torres conceived this sound piece as the core of “Illusion Brought Me Here,” a solo exhibition presented at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2018 and Wiels, Brussels, 2019. During their conversation, ideas about time, memory and the politics of images are intermixed with ambient sounds and a multi-part musical score written by the artist and produced with a range of musicians. Silence’s Wearing Thin Here offers, as the artist describes it, “an atmospheric road trip” which becomes the context for an abstract discussion between two female, quasi-robotic voices. ![]() The aim was to provide an overarching perspective on the concepts explored throughout his practice. The audio piece Silence’s Wearing Thin Here is composed of sound fragments that Mario Garcia Torres selected from a range of multimedia works he made from the 2000s onwards. It is in this sort of space where you allow yourself to be cheated, because you’re intrigued about this new thing you’ve never seen.”Ĭommissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and WIELS, Contemporary Art It’s a challenge to see if this robot-cum-person is able to transmit an idea too. I like the tension created by a machine that looks very much like a human. I think that my curiosity comes from some kind of impulse a desire to create a space where, as a spectator you don’t know exactly who is talking to you. In the words of the artist: “It’s a kind of experiment. ![]() The proposal from García Torres implies a script to be delivered by an AI character in a video. The Chinese tech company released an Artificial Intelligence based news anchor for the Chinese broadcasting agency Xin Hua. If Only I’d Thought Of The Right Words, n.d.įor the exhibition An Inquiry: Modes of Encounter, curated by Biljana Ciric, and presented by Times Museum, in Guangzhou, China, Mario García Torres was invited to produce a new piece, developed with Sogou. ![]()
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