Until It Makes Sense
2004 - Film & Video (Film & Video)
60 sec
Mario Garcia Torres
Mario Garcia Torres imagines cinematic devices to replay stories occasionally forgotten by Conceptual art. For him, this is a way of rethinking the tradition in a more personal way, to have a grip on events of recent history and examine them with a curiosity, both critical and sensual. The artist emphasizes the fact that new ideas and meanings may arise from these archaeological narratives. Until it Makes Sense seems to say that faced with the confrontation of heterogeneous elements, coherence can only emerge with the passage of time. It suggests yet that sensitive and personal observation, after all, is a valid form of interpretation of history. Mario Garcia Torres makes his work from already written stories, whether real or fictitious. He creates new narratives based on documents and works of “mythical” artists such as Robert Barry, John Baldessari, or lesser known artists such as Allen Smithee or Oscar Neuestern.
Mario García Torres is a conceptual artist who engages with various media in his practice, including film, sound, performance, ‘museographic installations’ and video. García Torres often cites untold or ‘minor’ histories, with a predilection for avant-garde art and music from the 1960s and 70s as departing points for his work. He has recreated historical exhibitions and has even ‘completed’ unfinished artworks, often blurring original and reenactment, past and present, while questioning universal ideas about truth, certainty and time – all core ideas in the development of his body of work.
Colors:
Related works sharing similar palette
© » KADIST
Elina Brotherus
A subject’s back stands before a landscape of mountains, arid and majestic, Der Wanderer 3 revisits the theme of man versus nature dear to Romantic painting and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich in particular...
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22496659/ss_856dc0a7fdf8bffb04cff24a3c9176e628879ff5.jpg)
© » KADIST
Toby Ziegler
2005The Fifth Quarter might have taken its mysterious inspiration from the eponymous Stephen King story collated into the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection...
© » TATE EXHIBITIONS
Zeinab Saleh | Tate Britain Zeinab Saleh presents an intimate new series of paintings and drawings which trace both fleeting movement and suspended time Zeinab Saleh uses acrylic paint, pastel and soft pastels to create a new series of paintings and drawings for her Art Now display at Tate Britain...
© » LARRY'S LIST
Silver Art Projects—a new artist residency program established by Silverstein Properties, the real estate development firm that was instrumental in the rebuilding of much of the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—is looking to bring more artists to Lower Manhattan...
© » MODERN MET ART
Learn How to Draw Realistic Portraits in This Online Class Home / Classes / Academy Discover the Secrets of Drawing Realistic Portraits (Now on Pre-Sale!) By Jessica Stewart on December 5, 2023 Have you ever seen a realistic portrait and wished that you knew how to create something similar? Thanks to My Modern Met Academy's new course, Realistic Portrait Drawing Made Easy , you'll discover all the tips, tricks, and techniques to produce a portrait that looks incredibly real...
© » KADIST
Randa Maddah
2017Shot from the rooftop of her house in Majdal Shams, through a complex construction of moving mirrors, this video connects both sides of the border which has cut through Syrian Golan heights since the 1967 Six-Day war...
© » HYPERALLERGIC
Sleeping Polar Bear Snuggling on Iceberg Wins Photo Award Skip to content "Ice Bed" (2023), digital photo (© Nima Sarikhani, Wildlife Photographer of the Year; all images courtesy the artist and Natural History Museum, London) In an era of immeasurable chaos caused by unsustainable human activity across the planet, it’s crucial to look within the natural world for order, hope, and to feel grounded as things spiral around us...
© » LE MONDE
Sarah Brahim remonte ses souvenirs dans un maelström de gestes et de sons Cet article vous est offert Pour lire gratuitement cet article réservé aux abonnés, connectez-vous Se connecter Vous n'êtes pas inscrit sur Le Monde ? Inscrivez-vous gratuitement Article réservé aux abonnés Vue d’ensemble de « Sometimes We Are Eternal », exposition de Sarah Brahim, à Lugano (Suisse), en octobre 2023...
© » LENS CULTURE
Dreaming on the Hudson - Photographs by Andrew Kung | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Feature Dreaming on the Hudson Questioning preconceived notions of masculinity and Asian American identity against the backdrop of the Hudson River Valley, Andrew Kung weaves a new American pastoral in images that capture tender moments of youth...
© » KADIST
Tony Cokes
2022Tony Cokes’s long-form, multi-channel work Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 forms a layered montage of historical and contemporary source material exploring different periods of Munich’s history...
© » KADIST
Teppei Kaneuji
2014In his White Discharge series (2002 to today), arguably his best known works, Kaneuji assembles old toys and plastic scarps into dramatic mounded heaps and covers the surface with white plastic resin, drawing on allusions to landfills, commodity fetishism, and creative repurposing...