Mario Montoya

FRONT ON

The image and its hidden, the visible and the invisible. The action mobilizes and transforms others as it does with us, we are presence in the space and we want to experiment with the body, looking for dissolution in the alterity of matter. We want to develop deep anarchy in art, wich is the basis of every poetry and questions the relationship between object and object and between form and meaning. FRONT ON is an interdisciplinary work made for Light Art Performance in October 2020. From performance art, sound and videographic logging, he proposes to the viewer an intermittent composition that reflects on the presence of the invisible.

1989 (Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain): Diploma of Higher Education in Art Photography and Design by the Escuela de Arte de Sevilla (Art School of Seville), where he finished with the project: «Allegory of a broken home». This work received the recognition from different international festivals and he has participated with it in numerous exhibitions. In 2014, thanks to the masterful Bartolomé Ferrando, he started an art practice focused on direct experience. University Degree in Fine Arts by the «Universidad Politécnica de Valencia» (University of Valencia), specialization in Intermedia Art. It has several workshops and collaborations with Monika Günther, Seiji Shimoda or Alastair MacLennan among others. Currently he has made more than 70 exhibitions in this field, he has participated in important festivals like Acción!MAD, ARCO or INTERVAL. At the same time, he manages different cultural projects such as Diàleg Obert or the international project FORMA-TEM, in the theatre El Musical of Valencia.
«The object conceals, in its apparent insignificance, the capacity to transform the known world». My research since 2014 has developed around the body/object notion, from which I pretend: minimizing the intention, liberating the material from its functionality, blurring the limit of our relationships and adopting a dissident position concerning impositions. Concretely, I am referring to those that hold a normative use of the quotidian object and oppose to the value of suggestions, the flights of meaning, the subtle, the absurd and the insignificant as expressive mediums.

I want silence to enter my work, you have to create spaces for this to happen, for art to open up to life. I'm interested in an ephemeral art, where nothing stays and everything changes. an art for here and now, just as unpredictable for the one who does and the one who looks.

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