08/11/23 - 27/01/24
Mario Garcia Torres
I Can’t See Regret in Here

^{Mario Garcia Torres, I Can’t See Regret in Here, installation view at Jan Mot, 2023 (from left to right: Mofe Intelectual, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 60 x 40 cm; Pieza Tumbada, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 130 x 100 cm). Photo: Mina Albespy.}

The gallery presents a new series of two-dimensional works by Mario Garcia Torres, which seem to suggest, at first glance, the story of a studio accident. Someone has inadvertently moved a ready-to-be-painted canvas with dirty hands. Heirs of David Hammonds’ Body Prints, or Piero Manzoni’s Egg Sculptures, the pieces have been made by the artist himself performing the described “accident”. With toner in his hands – the dust normally used in photocopy machines – he “ruins” the canvas, leaving his hands’ imprint on the surface. It is as if the artist had decided to leave the canvas devoid of all meaning except for a signature, which turns the mishap into an intentional action.

Grounded in Garcia Torres’ conceptual approach to painting, as well as his long-term interests in ideas surrounding failure, the works do not make a statement themselves but become decoys that reveal our relationship with mistakes, imperfections and the well-done.

^{Mario Garcia Torres, I Can’t See Regret in Here, installation view at Jan Mot, 2023 (from left to right: I Can’t See Regret in Here, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 192 x 150 cm; I Can’t Explain Why, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 90 x 60 cm; Flow Accidental, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 192 x 150 cm). Photo: Mina Albespy.}

^{Mario Garcia Torres, Flow Accidental, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 192 x 150 cm. Installation view at Jan Mot, 2023. Photo: Mina Albespy.}

^{Mario Garcia Torres, A No Doubter, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 90 x 60 cm. Installation view at Jan Mot, 2023. Photo: Mina Albespy.}

^{Mario Garcia Torres, I Can’t See Regret in Here, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas, 192 x 150 cm (detail). Photo: Mina Albespy.}

08/11/23 - 27/01/24Mario Garcia TorresI Can’t See Regret in Here

08/11/23 - 27/01/24
Mario Garcia Torres
I Can’t See Regret in Here