Mario García Torres: Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials / MATRIX 227

THIS IS NOT EASY. THIS IS NOT EASY TO EXPLAIN. THIS IS NOT EASY TO EXPLAIN BUT. THIS I SNOT EASY TO EXPLAIN BUT I THINK. THIS IS NOT EASY TO EXPLAIN BUT I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST IMPORTANT SHOWS I HAVE EVER SEEN.

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Mario García Torres looks to recent history, in both its anecdotal and official articulations, to make connections between the present moment and artists who, in García Torres’s words, “were fundamentally trying to legitimatize a different way of conceiving art.”

huhn?! well, yup, actually and...

García Torres’s work illuminates past projects and rescues them from obscurity in the service of metaphorical poetics.

uh, o.k. "go bears!"

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