Mario García Torres. Throwing in the Towel

From February 24th to May 8th, 2024, Massimo Minini presents the first solo exhibition of Mario Garcia Torres, a Mexican artist belonging to the conceptual and neo-conceptual tradition, reinterpreting the foundations of this discipline.

Sculptures belonging to existing series will interact with two-dimensional works that testify to his conceptual approach to painting. A new work, titled "Throwing in the Towel," gives the exhibition its title and pays homage to the great masters of the same movement, recently deceased.

Mario Garcia Torres (b. 1975, Monclova, Mexico) is an artist
currently living between Mexico City and Los Angeles. Through
personal and intimate research-based practice, his work has been
investigating the structures and politics that make art possible,
mainly using blind spots in recent art history and employing gestures
normally related to the immaterial legacy of conceptual
art. Interested in uncertainty and counter-narratives, he has blurred
the notions of fact and fiction through a wide range of mediums,
including film, slide shows, performance, sound and painting.
Some of the most important solo exhibitions of his work have been
held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007), Kunsthalle Zürich
(2008), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (2009), Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010); Museo MADRE, Naples
(2013), Perez Art Museum, Miami (2015), TBA21, Vienna (2016),
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2016), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
(2018) and Wiels Art Centre, Brussels (2019) MARCO, Monterrey
(2021).
He has also participated in such international exhibitions as the
Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj, Emirates (2017), Manifesta 11,
Zurich, the Berlin Biennale (2014); the Mercosul Biennial, Porto
Alegre, Brazil (2013); Documenta 13, Kassel (2012); the São Paulo
Bienal (2010); and the Venice Biennale (2007) to name a few. Garcia
Torres' work is part of many private collections around the world. His
works could be found in public collections such as the MoMA, New
York, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, MUAC and Museo Tamayo in
Mexico City, the Hammer Museum in LA and the Tate Modern,
London.