Mario Antón

Born in Santander (Spain) in 1993, he lives and works between London, Santander and Menorca. Although Menorca is the place where he gets much of his inspiration from and where he currently spends more of his time. He studied Fine Arts and Design in Madrid and his work navigates between the two shores, working as a painter and as a designer, mainly with private commissions.

Mario Antón’s work has its origins in the family collection of religious triptychs, pieces that he uses as a blank canvas on which to capture the concerns of our modern world. Triptychs have always been an emblematic format in the art world, a piece that is not affected by the passage of time; these objects and what they represent, go together in perfect harmony with the historical context in which they are created. They also have a certain political origin, reflecting the socio-cultural context of the time in which they were created, equating political salvation with spiritual salvation. 

From his grandmother he took the first religious triptych in order to to intervene that image of authority that represented and superimposed another image that came from the sterile decadence of the present moment. The human being is seen as the protagonist of a cycle of pain that does not cease in its intermittent obstinacy to impose itself on the minotaur of the earth even knowing its impossibility and the present and future ravages.