Material Art Fair

Mexico City | 6-9 FEB | Booth A02

Una sedia, le luci di un club e la mia solitudine (2024); Sardinian brocade, silk organza crochet, liquid outliner for glass, stitched on canvas; 45x35cm. Ph. by Nicola Morittu; courtesy the artist
Una sedia, le luci di un club e la mia solitudine (2024); Sardinian brocade, silk organza crochet, liquid outliner for glass, stitched on canvas; 45x35cm. Ph. by Nicola Morittu; courtesy the artist
Galleria Macca is pleased to announce its participation to the 11th edition of MATERIAL ART FAIR in Mexico City, 6-9 February 2025, for the fifth time in its Main Section. The booth (A02) will feature a solo presentation by Ruben Montini (b. 1986, Italy; lives and works in Turin, Italy)

Over the last few years, Montini has created a body of works ranging from performance to the manipulation of its photographic documentation, and textile works. He often articulates a complex thought between physical and collective actions using his body like a simulacrum, that carries the signs and traces of LGBTQI+ community's mistreatment, still undergoing in our contemporary society. 
 

Our booth's presentation consists of an overview of new works ranging from 2021 until present days, comprising of a large textile tapestry and a sculpture, small paintings and a video. Addressing the notion of social injustice against the LGBTQI+ community, furthering the artists' investigation into the technical and sociopolitical concepts of contemporary performance, his work is poetic; perhaps due to the fragility of the scenes depicted where everything looks colourful and joyful but at the same time somehow disturbing.

 

"Montini has been facing uncomfortable, yet current and critical subjects, by using performance as the preferred medium. These characteristics have determined the outcomes of a precise aesthetic strategy, which has marked the research of such a complex artist in the world of Italian performance art..." (Eugenio Viola, Artistic Director, MAMBO, Bogotà).

Le mura del manicomio (2024); video (still) 16mns 00secs; ed. 2/5. Ph. by Nicola Morittu; courtesy the artist
Le mura del manicomio (2024); video (still) 16mns 00secs; ed. 2/5. Ph. by Nicola Morittu; courtesy the artist

BIO

 

Ruben Montini (1986, Italy) lives and works in Turin, Italy. Graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2008, he received his MA Fine Arts at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design in London, in 2010.Moving between performance and the creation of textile works, between physical and collective actions, Montini articulates a complex thought which, if on one hand is ephemeral and romantic, on the other it is one of the main narrative voices of today's battles of the LGBTQ+ community in Italy. While developing his actions and his textile works, Montini has begun to produce some collective projects in which he strives to involve the public in the production of temporary monuments and rituals that become ephemeral memorials for the minority of his community.

 

His work has been shown widely in international institutions, such as: Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan, Italy; Penn University, Philadelphia, USA; Tranzit. Ro / Cluj, Cluj, Romania; Centre for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria; RÄ«gas mÄkslas telpa, Riga, Latvia; DumBO, Bologna, Italy; NOMUS, The New Art Museum, GdaÅ„sk, Poland; Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy; Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia; Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; FdG Projects, Bruxelles, Belgium; CRUCE Arte y Pensamiento, Madrid, Spain; Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands; Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy; Aleš South-Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic; Fondazione MACC, Calasetta, IT; Dům umÄ›ní mÄ›sta Brna, Brno, Czech Republic; MKC, Split, Croatia; MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy; Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany; Museum for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Centre of Contemporary Art, ToruÅ„, Poland; Museo Ettore Fico, Torino, Italy; Oratoire du Louvre, Paris, France; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy...

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