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Today (Latest News From Kabul), 2006/2011

“Today (Latest News from Kabul) makes reference to Italian artist Alighiero Boetti and his deep love for Afghanistan. It starts from a 1970 Boetti piece titled Today, for which the artist simply wrote the current date and time on a wall, a typical example of his interest in temporality. Instead of the day’s date, Garcia Torres writes the latest news from Kabul on the wall, using both of his hands simultaneously, starting from the center and proceeding in opposite directions, in the same way that Boetti once did. Each time the work is installed it is composed of a different text that is determined by the current situation in that tormented city. Garcia Torres creates a work that could likely have been done by Boetti because, sadly, the news from Kabul is not very different than it was thirty years ago. If on one hand he manipulates art history by alluding to possibilities that never happened, on the other he seems to point out the insignificance of the impact that man can have on the course of time.”

Mario Garcia Torres, født i 1975 i Monclova, Mexico, bor og og arbeider i Mexico City. Hans siste soloproduksjoner inkluderer Material Witness, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Cover Letter, Itinerant Gallery, New York; What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon og ¿Alguna Vez Has Visto La Nieve Caer?, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Torres har også deltatt på en rekke gruppeutstillinger, blant annet på 29th International São Paulo Biennalen, São Paulo og 2010 Taipei Biennialen, Taipei, Taiwan.

Ett nytt kunstverk hver dag i 23 dager. Utstilling, konserter, performance 16.09-16.10

The Art Militia, Øyvind Berg, Dina Danish, Marius Engh, Laura Oldfield Ford, Søren Thilo Funder, Ahmad Ghossein, Jean-Luc Godard og Anne-Marie Miéville, Marianne Heier, Runhild Hundeide, Toril Johannessen, Mette Karlsvik, Hassan Khan, Guro S. Moe, Ahmet Öğüt, Pia Maria Roll, Benjamin Seror og Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Dan Starling, Pilvi Takala, Mario Garcia Torres, Kjersti Vetterstad, Synnøve G. Wetten og Dan Wolgers.