Mario Garcia Torres - An Arrival Tale

Cory Scozzari Daniela Zyman

ISBN 10: 3956792645 / ISBN 13: 9783956792649

Published by Sternberg Press, 2017

About this Item

Paperback.Width: 17 cm. Height: 24cm. 216 pages. English text.

Seller Inventory # 27338

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mario Garcia Torres - An Arrival Tale
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3956792645
• ISBN 13: 9783956792649
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Appropriation, storytelling, reenactment, and reportage are some of the strategies that Mario García Torres deploys to highlight the limitations of factual evidence and the agency of historical records and objects. An Arrival Tale detaches the Mexican artist's works in the TBA21 collection from their original contexts and offers them as a collection of narratives and artistic experiments open for reinscription in order to address the conditions and urgencies of our contemporary societies. It examines the space of arrival as a complicated and disjointed nexus between departure, displacement, and return.

This publication follows the eponymous exhibition at TBA21 – Augarten. While conceived in relation to the exhibition, this book is not a documentation, but rather the start of a journey that expands, explores, complicates, and undoes the thematic threads of spatial disjunction, recollection, asynchronicity, fictionality, and the politics of visibility.

Copublished with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

Contributors
Armen Avanessian, Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Anke Hennig, Chus Martínez, Eva Wilson, Daniela Zyman

About the Author

Mario García Torres (né en 1975 à Monclova, Mexique, vit et travaille à Mexico) est diplômé du California Institute of the Arts en 2005. Son travail explore les potentialités de la photographie, du film et de la performance comme outil de rééxamination de l'histoire et des pratiques artistiques conceptuelles.
Il a exposé au Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2016), au Modern Art Museum de Fort Worth (2015), au Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2014), au Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2013), au Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010), et au Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2007). Il a également participé à la 8ème Biennale de Berlin (2014), à dOCUMENTA (13), à Kassel (2012), ) ma Biennale de São Paulo (2010), à la Biennale de Taipei (2010), à la Triennale de Yokohama (2008) et à la Biennale de Venise (2007). Il est le gagnant du prix Frieze Cartier 2007 qui consacre les artistes internationaux émergents.