Demencia
Acrylic on Linen
36x29in
$1,710
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Ian Mont
Spain
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- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 36.2x24.8in
About this artwork
This bull dies as all bulls die, in the ring, violently, publicly, for our entertainment.
In Dying Bull, I confront the ritualized violence we call culture. Oil on raw Belgian linen, the red paint flows like arterial blood, each mark recording the moment where power meets powerlessness. The bull's last breath is our collective shame, a tradition that reveals its brutality when we stop calling it art.
From Goya's Disasters to Picasso's Guernica,… the bull embodies the Spanish capacity for cruelty. But where those masters found metaphor, I only find flesh, flesh torn for pleasure, death choreographed for applause. I painted this after years in Catalonia watching bullfighting defended as a heritage, the same argument used in Cuba to justify violence as a revolutionary tradition. Fortunately, this ritual is diminishing.
In Dying Bull, I confront the ritualized violence we call culture. Oil on raw Belgian linen, the red paint flows like arterial blood, each mark recording the moment where power meets powerlessness. The bull's last breath is our collective shame, a tradition that reveals its brutality when we stop calling it art.
From Goya's Disasters to Picasso's Guernica,… the bull embodies the Spanish capacity for cruelty. But where those masters found metaphor, I only find flesh, flesh torn for pleasure, death choreographed for applause. I painted this after years in Catalonia watching bullfighting defended as a heritage, the same argument used in Cuba to justify violence as a revolutionary tradition. Fortunately, this ritual is diminishing.
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.
Ian Mont
Toro moribundo
$2,300
