Mario García Torres is an artist currently working in Mexico City.
This is his Instagram account.
These are his music projects in Spotify.
And this is what they say about him in Wikipedia.
Mario does not have a Facebook page.
The work of Mario García Torres is represented by:
Jan Mot, Brussels
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Franco Noero, Turin
Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil
This is what he´s been up to:
Mario is preparing his participation in the exhibition Arte Povera at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, France.
His solo show, La Paradoja del Esfuerzo, is now on view at Taka Ishii in Tokyo.
A new Acapulco Chair is currently being shown at MASA in Mexico City as part of the gallery’s 5th Anniversary show.
Mario was invited to be part of Le Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art by the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art and the Château de Fontainebleau. The inaugural conference, in conversation with Nicolas Trembley, is available here.
Mario’s podcast, titled Así Sí, is available on most podcast platforms. Most of his musical works, performative lectures, and collaborations are also available on Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms.
These are some links to press:
Here a short note as part of Where We Are At, at Artforum mag (Sept, 2020).
Here is an essay he wrote about the museums situation in the context of COVID-19 pandemic published at newspaper El Norte. Iniciativa Museos Uno en Uno ENG Iniciativa Museos Uno en Uno
An article about his life and work published by Gatopardo Magazine.
An interview by Lucy Cotter for Mousse Magazine, issue 66 on his recent retrospective at Walker Art Center and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre.
His solo show at neugerriemschneider was part of the Highlights of the Berlin Gallery Weekend published by artsy.
A recent report published by Mousse Magazine, about The Day Time Lost It´s Patience, his show at Franco Noero.
A collaboration with Mousse Magazine about Michael Asher.
A number of works by Mario entered the Museum of Modern Art, New York recently.
Mario was invited to give his views about the changes in the last 15 years in Latinamerica at Frieze magazine.
A review of Video Art in Latinamerica, LAXART, and other shows from LA/LA at the LAtimes.
These are some older press notes:
The Frieze Questionare!
1000 words at Artforum, with Tom McDonough.
Una entrevista en i-D Vice por Edgar Hernández.
A conversation with Allen Smithee and Michael Wellen, published by Chronograph magazine.
A review in Artforum of a show he made in NY, as part of Itinerant. And this from the New York Times.
An artist project at Frieze, The Way They Looked…
And these are some old Critics’ Picks at Artforum, about a show at the Berkeley Museum and Kadist, Paris.
This is a small selection of shows in the last few years.
Solo
La Paradoja del Esfuerzo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Cositas, Arte Abierto, Ciudad de México
gettare la spugna, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italia
The Space Under My Chair & The Music I Was Listening To, MASA, Ciudad de México
A Scene That Cannot Be Easily Explained, Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo
I Can’t See Regret in Here, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels and LA Suite, at Fondation Walter & Nicole Leblanc, Brussels
DESTINO, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City.
La Poética del Regreso, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Not-so-recent solo shows:
Strange How Things Work Out, Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo. Solo, Museo Jumex, Mexico City. Alighiero e Boetti e Mario García Torres, Travesía Cuatro. Illusion Brought Me Here, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis & WEILS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels. Not to Belong to Themselves, neugerriemschneider, Berlin. The Way They Look at Each Other, Jan Mot
When Time Lost Its Patience, Franco Noero, Turin. La fiesta fue ayer (Y nadie recuerda nada), Archivo, Mexico
An Arrival Tale, TBA21, Vienna
Caminar Juntos, Museo Tamayo, CDMX (This is a report with images in the curator’s blog)
The Space We´ve Got, Taka Ishii, Tokio
Perez Art Museum, Miami
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
La Lezione di Boetti, MADRE, Napoli (By the way, this is a short review in Artforum)
NuMu, Guatemala
Je Ne Sais, El Eco, Mexico City
Recent Group shows
Arte Povera, Bource de Commerce, Paris
Las paradojas del internacionalismo (narradas por la colección del Museo Tamayo). Parte II. Museo Tamayo, México City
The Future Will Be Different, Mario Garcia Torres / Ryan Gander, FF Projects , Monterrey
Chosen Memories, MoMA, NYC
Desert X 2023, Coachella Valley, CA
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
Guest Relations, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
Seth Siegelaub: What, When and How” Program, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Some more or less recent Biennials:
XIII Bienal Femsa, Zacatecas, México.
13 Sharjah Biennial, UAE
Manifesta 11, Zurich
8th Berlin Bienniale
Documenta 13, Kassel
Bienal Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil. This is the music project he and a number of his friends made for it.
He has also participated in the Venice Biennial, the Yokohama Triennale, the Panama and the Sao Paolo Biennials.
These are some publications (that are available):
Here, a recently published profile of MGT at Revista Gatopardo (in Spanish).
The Walker Art Center and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre co-commissioned monograph Illusion Brought Me Here, published with Koenig Books is now available!
MOREpublishers put out recently a piece that is titled: This gift paper will become a work of art once it is used to wrap an object, and its been open by its adresee, n.d. You can buy it here, for 99 euro.
Una Promessa Non Mantenuta, edited by MGT, and published by Franco Noero, Torino. Check it out on the Friends Make Books website.
This is the book made on the occasion of An Arrival Tale. Published by TBA21 and distributed by Sternberg Press. This is the page from the designers. You can buy it in Amazon.
The catalogue for Caminar Juntos, published by Museo Tamayo. Its in Spanish and English. Beyond a critical text by Sofia Hernandez Chong-Cuy, it contains a number of scripts by the artist.
A Few Questions Regarding the Hesitance… is an essay by the artist that was published on the occasion of dOCUMENTA13. You can still buy it from HatjeCantz.
Xoco, the Kid Who Loved Being Bored… Is a kids book, published by Taka Ishii Gallery. You can buy it at Motto, Berlin.
They published an interview he made with David Askevold, in this book about the artist.
Sur 1, (Collaboration for the magazine related to Conlon Nancarrow) ed. Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio.
Amazon also has a very little run, and small book: Christopher d’Arcangelo 84 West Broadway… You can buy it there, used, for 49 usd.
Date Due, is a book published on the occasion of a show at Kadist, Paris. Amazon says is a collectible.