Cabeza de santo III
Oil on Linen
24x20in
$2,390
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Ian Mont
Spain
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17 pieces
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 23.6x19.7in
About this artwork
The face is barely recognizable, devoured by matter.
In Head of a Saint V, I work with oil and gold acrylic on canvas; the thick brushstrokes invoke a ritual violence. The palette is reduced but incisive, the face destroyed by the application of paint, as if sanctity itself had been ripped apart. An intimate, material work where emotional abstraction emerges from the process of constructive destruction.
I paint these heads as reverse archaeology,… not to recover the original face but to understand what destroyed its legibility. In Cuba, the Revolution disfigured saints with hammer blows; in Spain, the market disfigures them, turning them into commodities. Both gestures nullify their power, one through direct prohibition, the other through commercial saturation.
Dense matter denies passive contemplation. This saint demands that the gaze work to find him, and when it does, it is discovered that there is nothing left to venerate.
In Head of a Saint V, I work with oil and gold acrylic on canvas; the thick brushstrokes invoke a ritual violence. The palette is reduced but incisive, the face destroyed by the application of paint, as if sanctity itself had been ripped apart. An intimate, material work where emotional abstraction emerges from the process of constructive destruction.
I paint these heads as reverse archaeology,… not to recover the original face but to understand what destroyed its legibility. In Cuba, the Revolution disfigured saints with hammer blows; in Spain, the market disfigures them, turning them into commodities. Both gestures nullify their power, one through direct prohibition, the other through commercial saturation.
Dense matter denies passive contemplation. This saint demands that the gaze work to find him, and when it does, it is discovered that there is nothing left to venerate.
Ian Mont
Spain
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Ian Mont (Puerto Padre, 1972) paints the memory that exile fragmented.
He exhibited in Cuba during the 1990s until a scholarship brought him to Spain in 2006. He never returned. Between 2006 and 2018, he survived by working in technology, the painting being buried along with the works he couldn't get off the island.
Since 2018, he has returned to oil, burlap, and rough materials, but his practice has mutated. He combines traditional painting with artificial intelligence applied to historical archives, working with photographs of Ellis Island and colonial records to reconstruct what was silenced. The series "Iconoclasms" and "Animals in Conflict" dismantle sacred and national symbols to reveal their hidden violence.
From Barcelona, he develops a visual archaeology of Atlantic migration. He doesn't seek beauty, he seeks testimony. The wound doesn't heal, it breathes.
He exhibited in Cuba during the 1990s until a scholarship brought him to Spain in 2006. He never returned. Between 2006 and 2018, he survived by working in technology, the painting being buried along with the works he couldn't get off the island.
Since 2018, he has returned to oil, burlap, and rough materials, but his practice has mutated. He combines traditional painting with artificial intelligence applied to historical archives, working with photographs of Ellis Island and colonial records to reconstruct what was silenced. The series "Iconoclasms" and "Animals in Conflict" dismantle sacred and national symbols to reveal their hidden violence.
From Barcelona, he develops a visual archaeology of Atlantic migration. He doesn't seek beauty, he seeks testimony. The wound doesn't heal, it breathes.
Ian Mont
Cabeza de santo V
$2,390
