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Illusion brought me here / Mario García Torres ; [editors: Vincenzo de Bellis, Caroline Dumalin].

Title

Illusion brought me here / Mario García Torres ; [editors: Vincenzo de Bellis, Caroline Dumalin].

Author

García Torres, Mario, 1975-

Publication

[London, England : Koenig Books, Ltd., [2019]
©2019

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255 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 28 x 22 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Mario García Torres : illusion brought me here.

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Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 25, 2018-February 17, 2019 and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, May 17-August 18, 2019.

Contents

Foreword / Mary Ceruti & Dirk Snauwaert -- Editorial note / Vincenzo de Bellis & Caroline Dumalin -- Essays. A space for something to happen / Tom McDonough ; The writer / Sophie Berrebi ; "Landscape," or make Texas Mexico again / Julia Bryan-Wilson ; Tarzan Boy / Rulo David -- Incomplete catalogue of works. The day mankind faded away ; What happens in Halifax stays in Halifax (in 36 slides) ; The space we've got ; Je ne sais si c'en est la cause ; Moonwalk ; R.R. and the expansion of the tropics ; Sing like Baldessari (Freestyle) ; Wzgórza ; Carta abierta a Dr. Atl ; A brief history of Jimmie Johnson's legacy ; What doesn't kill you makes you stronger ; Falling together in time ; Goodbye, Goodbye ; Preliminary sketches from the past and for the future (Stedelijk Museum) ; Cover letter ; Museo de Arte Sacramento ; Dear beholder... ; A list of names of artists I like (or cubism seen under a specific light) ; An approximation to 9 at Leo Castelli (my own experiences, findings and happenstances) ; SEP unlimited ; The causality of hesitance ; Merz, Rzemmmm, Zeeeeerm, Emrzzzzzz (at Fibonacci Pace) ; Unspoken dailies ; Untitled ; Carta Abierta a Hermenegildo Bustos ; I am not a flopper ; My westphalia days ; Winter piece ; The disjunction of time ; One minute to act a title ; This painting ; Xoco ; Poured ; Sounds like isolation to me ; The strange things my eyes see ; Share-e naw wanderings (a film treatment) ; ¿Alguna vez has visto la nieve caer? ; Tea ; The unfolding of A, or an uncompleted of B ; The cordiality paradox ; The way they looked at each other ; The Schlieren plot ; Il aurait bien pu le promettre aussi ; All the color is making me blind (notes on the beginning of the end of video art) ; Que coisa é? ; Silence's wearing thin here -- Illusion brought me here. Installation views ; Good things come to those who go / Vincenzo de Bellis ; When is here?, or four easy pieces / Caroline Dumalin.

ISBN

3960985908
9783960985907

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Columbia University Libraries