Miquel Mont

Miquel Mont - Dates

Técnica: Acrylic, canvas, further, paper, laser impression.

Biografía del Artista: 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 it and its environment is of utmost importance for creation. His pieces inhabit the wall, escaping the traditional formula of the painting. Interested in a third dimensionality of painting, he experiments with breaking the traditional support: firstly, he fractures its boundaries in the overflow of the paint, in the margins of the frame, and gradually frees the material more and more, through a rigorously intellectual process that has sometimes led him to also act as a curator to develop his theories with the work of other artists. This break with convention already appears timidly in this polyptych from 1997, with four monochrome paintings based on multiple layers. The painting becomes a deconstructed composition in four autonomous units that are needed to form a whole and that dialogue with each other. Along with space, colour is of great importance in the artist's work as it articulates the total meaning of the piece, never in a decorative way. Over time, Mont has expanded his work, first as a wall painting and then into 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 colour in the pieces. Miquel Mont has lived and worked in Paris since 1989.