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Montano, Ignacio   [ USA ]

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Lives and Works in Chicago North America

    
   

I was born in lower California , Mexico. My artistic inclinations were recognized when I was four years old by my father who saw that , to use his own words, that I was "an artist in miniature" and that I would become an artist ( this was said and written by him in a poem made it to me then) . Attended medical school at the Autonoma University but after 2 years switch to the University of Guadalajara Art School - just as my father had predicted. My artistic visions did not fit in the traditional curriculum of the Art School. Shortly there after I began working on my own artistic development independently and continuously up to today. In 1976 with the spacecraft Viking landing in Mars. Was like an artistic epiphany : I saw as my artistic mission to capture the endless human and artistic possibilities the Cosmos offered.
My artistic sensitivities were further impacted in 2002 when I was fortunate enough to find my self in northern Mexico in an area that reminded me of an extraterrestrial landscape, the spectacular melted shapes and forms served to inspired and add a new phase in my work up to today.

  
1. ASTRONAUT PORTRATE 2008 Mixed media, collage (artist dress in a spacesuit)

2. EMPEROR AT BERLIN MARS, OBJECT-SCULPTURE, Medium: aluminum, plastic, glass, functional and non functional electronic components

3.  MANHATTAN SPACESHIP 10, OBJECT-SCULPTURE, Medium: aluminum, plastic, glass, functional and non functional electronic components

4 .Newton Spaceship at Berlin Mars, OBJECT-SCULPTURE, Medium: aluminum, plastic, glass, functional and non functional electronic components

5. Nr1-Los Angspac Town SihpCo at Paris Mars, OIL ON CANVAS

6.PROMETHEUS and Manhattan,  OBJECT-SCULPTURE, Medium: aluminum, plastic, glass, functional and non functional electronic components

7 .SPACESHIP MANHATTAN-H nr1Horizontal orange, OBJECT-SCULPTURE, Medium: aluminum, plastic, glass, functional and non functional electronic components

8. Understress City of London-Mars, , OIL ON CANVAS

9.Washington City Earth Moon-year 2080, OIL ON CANVAS

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Not long ago, on a day like any other , a microscopic essence -pure retransformed energy began its journey through this planet of ours. Today that being is this repository body of mine, which somewhere along the way decided to enter the sacred corridors of the aesthetic, intuitive and expressive realm of a forthcoming world. My work tries to articulate the exploration of visual space-a perspicuous space that demand the spectator to experience two separate entities: Physical and optical. My sculptures visually comment upon the challenges coexisting beyond the benevolent atmosphere of our terrestrial planet. There thru our intuitive , universal energy, I harvest our physical and psychological world which reinvents itself speculatively and spectacularly into this cognitive forthcoming ethereal world .
Thus, new matrices are reborn, bloom, fade away, abort, and die on the eternal circle of retransformed energy of the mind, expressed through an infinite range of colors and forms and unforeseen , unending mediums. On the plain of a painting the correlation between the mood of the subjects involved , be they physical or psychological , largely determines the celestial atmosphere evolving through the magic infusion of pigments, weighted, and determined by the drama, be it of exalted wonder, extroverted evil or introverted ugliness. On this journey of my spirit, each painting becomes a challenge in the realm of forms to be reinvented , and psychologies to be created anew. There are no battles, there are no struggles, in the pursuit to reach them only the dominance of perception. Thus the ultimate doer, intuition , through the medium of my soul, sails like a craft in its element, in a timeless, infinite world of wonder.