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ENCO AT LAKE SHORE MICHIGAN MARS, 2021 DIGITAL PRINT 16.1X8.2 IN. | 41X21 CM. DEATH IS COMING, BARCELONA MARS, 2022 OIL ON LINEN 15.7X11.8 IN. | 40X30 CM.
FINE ART CULTURE PLATONIC LOVE, ASTURIAS MARS, 2022 OIL ON LINEN 15.7X11.8 IN. | 40X30 CM. METAMORPHOSIS, FIGURES MARS, 2022 OIL ON LINEN 15.7X11.8 IN. | 40X30 CM.
ILAD, LOVE TO GO WITH YOU. PAMPLONA MARS, 2022 OIL ON LINEN 15.7X11.8 IN. | 40X30 CM.
WE ARE COMING. EL PRADO MARS, 2022 OIL ON LINEN 15.7X11.8 IN. | 40X30 CM.

IGNACIO MONTANO

Lives and works in Chicago, IL, United States of America
https://www.imontano.com/

When Chie Curley received a picture postcard of Ignacio “Prospective/Retrospective: The Art of Ignacio Montano” runs
Montano’s works from the National Museum of Mexican Art, through Jan.15. Two sizable sculptures, 22 paintings, and three
she knew she had found her man. Curley and Barbara Goldsmith of his drawings, all completed between 1976 and the present,
curate the exhibits at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston are on view. The sculptures, fashioned from materials including
and were looking for an artist for the millennium show when aluminum sheeting, glass, plastic tubing, plastic components,
the card arrived in the mail. “So much of his work looks like computer chips, motherboards, and solar panels, resemble
computer circuitry,” said Curley. “I’m sure he thinks very much shining spaceships poised for take-off. The meticulously detailed
about computers and how they will affect our lives in the paintings and drawings depict colonies in outer space or on
future.” As it turns out, circuitry is just one of the elements distant planets. All of the paintings carry the inscription “T.Time,”
sparking the imagination of the 51-year-old Montano. “From for terrestrial time, emphasizing the artist’s conviction that
the moment I saw Viking spaceship land on Mars in 1976, humans will one day travel in outer space. “We have been on this
I’ve never stopped thinking about life beyond planet Earth,” Earth - this cage - too long,” Montano said. “The idea of being
said Montano during an interview at the Noyes Center, where free to go to other worlds excites me.

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