MARIO GARCÍA TORRES – OILS
2025-12-01Inspired by specific episodes in Mexico’s recent 20th-century history, García Torres constructs a narrative plot that gives rise to a reflection on the idea of theatre, the concept of spectacularisation and the modes of enjoyment generated by both. It is an opportunity for the artist to reflect on elements deeply rooted in the culture of his country at that time and strongly characterising its public life.
The series of oil paintings produced for his exhibition constitute the artist’s first approach to this technique, a desire to engage with figurative painting, proceeding in parallel with a very personal investigation into the concept of “truth” in the representations he has chosen, into the ideas of reality and imagination, into the boundary between true and false, a series of connotations that conceptually resonate with and closely reflect the cultural and social tradition of his native Mexico.
Opposite – Ironed Argument, 2025
Exhibition runs through to February 14th, 2026
Galleria Franco Noero
via Mottalciata 10/B
10154 Torino
Italy
