Statement / Bio

Statement 

Antonio R. Montesinos works from the analysis, modification and registration of the spaces that build our daily experience, trying to understand how this unfolds in a hybrid environment, mixing the real with the fictional, the urban with the natural and the physical with the digital.

He focuses his interest in the different ways of understanding the production of these spaces we live in, as well as in the confrontation between different models of political-social emergency (Bottom-Up) and hierarchical control structures (Top-Down). Their proposals aim to analyze the tension between the structures of spatial planning and regulation in the face of the capacity for real action we have on our environment -through everyday actions such as communication or displacement.

His work uses different means: drawing, photography, sculpture, found objects, installation or digital media.

BIO

The artist was born in in 1979, in Ronda, Málaga. Graduated in Fine Arts by the UPV (; SP) and Máster in Digital Arts by la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona; SP).

He has worked and exhibited in institutions such as La Centrale Électrique (Bruselas, BE); Centro EX-TERESA (Bamberg, DE); Staadtische Galerie (Bremen, DE) or Gdansk City Gallery (POL), among others, In Spain, La Casa Encendida, Matadero, or Residencia de Estudiantes, in Madrid; Hangar, MACBA, Arts Santa Mònica or Fabra i Coats, in Barcelona; Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat; Sala Muncunill, Terrassa; Roca Umbert, Sabadell; CAAC, Sevilla; C3A, Córdoba; CAC, Málaga; Bilbao Arte, Bilbao; EACC, Castellón; or MUA, Alicante.

The artist has exhibited aswell in commercial spaces such as Galería Jose de la Fuente, Santander; Galería Aural, Alicante; or Espacio Valverde, Madrid. Is represented since 2016 by Galería Isabel Hurley, Málaga.

In addition, he has participated in international contemporary art fairs such as Art-o-rama, Marseille (FR); ARCO Madrid (SP); ZONA MACO, CDMX (MX); Estampa, Madrid (SP); or The Manchester Contemporary (UK)

Appart form the work he mades individually he has actively collaborated in different associations and collectives such as D_forma and with the independent space of production Rampa. He is also part of collaborative processes such as  Laboratorio de Pensamiento Lúdico,   La ciudad demudada,  Correspondencias desde Eyjafjallajokull  or  El deseo de andar a reflection project on the idea of Europe.

He regularly collaborates with publications on architecture and urbanism.