Animating the Void: The Reenactments of Mario Garcia Torres
Modern Painters, Mar. 2008, v. 20, no. 2, pp. 74-77
Mexican-born artist Mario Garcia Torres works in the "old-fashioned" mediums of Super 8 and 16 mm film, black-and-white photography, slide projectors an printed materials. His works draw heavily from the history of conceptual art (in particular that of California) as well as Minimalist and modernist tendencies. Within his works he addresses nostalgia, memory and history.
ITEM 2008.022 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Remains of an Animation – Mario Garcia Torres
Some Places I Has Seen Before Moving to LA – Mario Garcia Torres
A Never-Seen-By-The-Artist Sculpture – Mario Garcia Torres
What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax – Mario Garcia Torres
Open Letter to Dr. Atl – Mario Garcia Torres
Share-e-neau Wonderings [A Film Treatment] – Mario Garcia Torres
One Hotel – Boetti
Today (News from Kabul) – Mario Garcia Torres
Today Is... – Boetti
A Brief History of Jimmy Johnson's Legacy – Mario Garcia Torres
Bane a part – Jean-Luc Goddard
The Transparencies of the Non-Act – Mario Garcia Torres
An Undisclosed Moth – Mario Garcia Torres
Monochromatic Film on a Polychromic Story – Mario Garcia Torres