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Ian Mont
Spain
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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 (Yamil Rodríguez Montaña, Cuba, 1972; Spanish nationality) is a visual artist and researcher based in Barcelona. He works in photography, installation, and archival research. His practice examines forced displacement, historical memory, and the contemporary Mediterranean as a space of disappearance.
He trained in photography at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and left Cuba in 2006. Fifteen years of work, including seven solo exhibitions, remained on the island and were lost. He arrived in Catalonia undocumented, worked as a software engineer, and with his first paycheck bought a camera. Between 2007 and 2018 he built an extensive, unexhibited archive: the Catalan coast from end to end, migrant communities in cities and towns, and the food of the country that had taken him in. The apparent silence of that decadence was not an absence of work but an absence of circuit.
He trained in photography at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and left Cuba in 2006. Fifteen years of work, including seven solo exhibitions, remained on the island and were lost. He arrived in Catalonia undocumented, worked as a software engineer, and with his first paycheck bought a camera. Between 2007 and 2018 he built an extensive, unexhibited archive: the Catalan coast from end to end, migrant communities in cities and towns, and the food of the country that had taken him in. The apparent silence of that decadence was not an absence of work but an absence of circuit.
Ian Mont
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