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Article: Miquel Mont at Galeria dels Angels.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Originally from Barcelona, Miquel Mont has lived and worked in Paris since 1989. While still in Spain, he made industrial films and studied film theory, becoming aware, he told me, of film as an object and as material. His experiences in the medium of film accompany him into his present practice of dismantling and reordering the viewer's sequential awareness of the painting object. His installational abstraction foregrounds the presence of manufactured materials while minimizing his role as author.
In the late '90s, Mont began the "Peau" series (the title refers to the skin or peel of the painting), which involved substituting thick sheets of plywood for ...