Miquel Mont

Miquel Mont - Dates

Technique: Acrylic, canvas, plyethylene, paper, laser printing.

Artist Biography: The work of Miquel Mont (1963, Barcelona) reflects on the perception of the exhibition space through painting, the physical limits of the painting and its progressive expansion in space. To consider his work as painting is to limit its possibilities, given that object, support and content are omnipresent terms in the artist's work, which questions the validity of continuing to paint in the 21st century. His process is based on theories that study the perception of painting, in which the dialogue between painting and the environment is of the utmost importance for creation. His pieces inhabit the wall, escaping from the traditional formula of the painting. Interested in a third dimensionality of painting, he experiments with the rupture of the traditional support: first of all, he fractures its boundaries in the overflow of the painting, in the margins of the stretcher, and frees the material more and more, through a rigorously intellectual process that sometimes has led him to also act as a curator to develop his theories with the work of other artists. This rupture with the conventional already appears timidly in this polyptych of 1997, with four monochrome paintings based on multiple layers. The painting becomes a deconstructed composition in four autonomous units that need each other to form a whole and that dialogue with each other. Along with space, color is of great importance in the artist's work as it articulates the overall sense of the piece, never decoratively. Over time, Mont has expanded his work, first in the form of wall painting and then to the third dimension, detaching it from the wall to occupy the space in a sculptural way, and with wood and methacrylate as supports that complement the importance of color in the pieces. Miquel Mont lives and works in Paris since 1989.