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Mario Garci a. Torres

    An arrival tale
    A few questions regarding the hesitance at choosing between bringing a bottle of wine or a bouquet of flowers
    Radio Nancarrow 92.5 FM
    Illusion brought me here
    • „Illusion Brought Me Here“ maps out the extensive body of work of Mexican artist Mario García Torres for the first time. New essays by Sophie Berrebi, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Rulo David, Vincenzo de Bellis, Caroline Dumalin, and Tom McDonough look at the way García Torres’s work addresses ideas of failure, uncertainty, and memory, and at how the counter-narratives he weaves invite us to revisit and rethink the legacies of conceptual art in the Americas and Europe. This catalogue, published on the occasion of the artist’s first survey exhibition in the US and in Europe, also features a richly illustrated and annotated selection of nearly fifty works, the most comprehensive compilation of the artist’s practice available in print. "In Spanish, my native tongue, „ilusión“ has more than one meaning. It can suggest a misinterpretation of the senses, something like a deceptive appearance, or a figment of the imagination. But the word can also be used to convey a sense of hope, of favorable expectations: „Ilusión me trajo aquí“ is thus both an anticipation that something fortuitous might happen here, and a misleading view, the figment or mirage that launched a personal journey into art.” (Mario García Torres) Text: Sophie Berrebi, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Mary Ceruti, Rulo David, Vincenzo de Bellis, Caroline Dumalin, Tom McDonough, Dirk Snauwaert

      Illusion brought me here
    • Radio Nancarrow 92.5 FM (RN) is a temporary, pirate radio station that plays a long list of audio material related to American experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997). The station is the product of a number of recent initiatives around the musician. First, a publication, with the debut volume of Sur: “Studies for Player Piano”; second, as a museographical essay entitled “Sounds Like Isolation to Me” by artist Mario García Torres, presented at the Berlin Biennale 2014; and, finally, as an extension of the last two—or better said, a collision—was the exhibition presented at La Tallera, Casa Estudio David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cuernavaca 2015. Finally a compilation of all three is Radio Nancarrow the publication.

      Radio Nancarrow 92.5 FM
    • In seinem Notizbuch lädt Mario Garcia Torres die Leser dazu ein, an seinen Gedanken zum Verhältnis von Gast-Sein und Gastgeberschaft teilzuhaben. Welche Reaktionen werden ausgelöst, wenn man eine Einladung erhält? Wie agiert man in einem vorgegebenen Kontext und wie lässt sich daraus ausbrechen, lassen sich die beiden Rollen vertauschen? Garcia Torres umkreist diese Fragen anhand von Beispielen anderer Künstler, die sich explizit in eine der Rollen begeben haben: Alighieri Boetti mit seinem One Hotel in Kabul und Allen Ruppersberg mit Al’s Grand Hotel in Los Angeles in die des Gastgebers; auf der anderen Seite Daniel Buren als Gast eines 1989 durch einen Wirbelsturm zerstörten Resorts auf Saint Croix, einer der Jungferninseln, wo er In-situ-Arbeiten installierte, sowie Martin Kippenberger, der im Hotel Chelsea in Köln lebte. Wir sind dabei seine Gäste und müssen entscheiden, was wir mitbringen wollen: eine Flasche Wein oder einen Blumenstrauß. Mario Garcia Torres (*1975) ist Künstler und lebt in Mexiko-Stadt.

      A few questions regarding the hesitance at choosing between bringing a bottle of wine or a bouquet of flowers