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ARTEMIO NARRO / ART IS DARK AND FULL OF HORRORS

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Artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and art fans come together in this acid portrait of contemporary art, set in the famous art week in Mexico City, a lens looking at the fine line between success and failure, as well as the structures of power and elitism in a world where the least important thing is art. A look into the lives of three artists at different moments in their careers, from different origins and privileges, related to their social status, skin color and cultural standing. The only thing that unites them is their overflowing ambition.

About the artist.

Artemio Narro has referred to himself as the “Rolls Royce” of contemporary Mexican art. A founding member of the alternative art space La Panadería, Narro is part of a generation of Mexican artists who rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with conceptually razor-sharp yet lighthearted experiments in video, installation, and performance.More broadly, Narro’s approach to recorded and mass-produced media forces an unexpected reflection on the political, comic, and sometimes spiritual relations between what is seen and what isn’t, between what is delivered automatically to our senses and what is deliberately withdrawn from visibility.

“For me, cinema has been, is and will be a school, a friend, a teacher, a companion, an accomplice, I could narrate my life from the films I have seen and that have marked me. For me, cinema is the most complete and complex artistic expression, all my life has been linked to cinema, even my plastic work is directly related to it and it is not enough to be a simple spectator, it is also vital to do so.” -ARTEMIO”