Taka Ishii Gallery's artist Mario Garcia Torres will be participating in 8th Berlin Biennale.
Mario Garcia Torres (Monclova, 1975) is an artist currently living in Mexico City. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2005). In his work Garcia Torres explores the potential of a diverse range of media including photography, film, performance in order for it to serve as a tool in his own re-examination of concerns related to history and conceptual art practice in which there is always a time or location displacement. In so doing, he derives an new idea from history and reality. His solo exhibitions have included the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010), the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2009), the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2009), and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007). He has also participated in the Bienal de São Paulo (2010), the Taipei Biennial (2010), and the Yokahama Triennial(2008), the Biennale di Venezia (2007) and Documenta 13(2012). He is the winner of the 2007 Frieze Cartier Award for emerging international artists.
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courtesy of the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery