“Painting after Progress” de Miquel Mont

At Es Baluard Museum, as part of the “Thinking about Painting” series, we are organizing a new event to reflect on the practice of painting and its processes through the work of artist Miquel Mont.

In his talk, the artist will offer a transversal journey through his career, presented as an open reflection on his way of understanding painting, in different parallel series, without hierarchies or stylistic preferences. He conceives all of this practically from the manual gestures and visual acts that construct his works, in addition to incorporating the context of the exhibitions.

Mont will address notions that have profoundly changed our way of perceiving painting, as an “image” or “device” to evoke the ideas that underpin it. Painting is cosa mentale, according to Leonardo’s famous dictum, and it takes on particular relevance in our time, in which images are omnipresent. These circulate today in an incessant flow, enhanced, if not directly generated, by algorithms. They are also imposed on us as perfect vehicles for the widespread commodification inherent in our neoliberal economy, while developing an increasingly complex relationship with the truth of representations.

This lecture is part of the series of exhibitions entitled “Nachleben. Painting as Conceptual Art,” which aims to contribute to the understanding of recent art history and explore the intrinsic nature of painting, drawing on some of its vicissitudes and deviations. In its first chapter, “Nachleben” includes the work of Miquel Mont.