BIO

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.

Selected exhibitions

2021 Urvanity Art Fair, Madrid (Montresso Art Foundation acquisition prize with the

Allegory of mankind)

2021 Medium group show - Shoreditch, London.

2021 Manchester Contemorary Art Fair with the series of “The elements”

2022 Urvanity Art Fair, Madrid

2022 Solo Show, ‘’Order ab Chaos’’, London 

2023 Imago Mundo Art Theorema #3

2024 Urvanity Art Fair, Madrid 

2024 Solo Show Edén, Menorca June - July

2024 Vacío. Es Castel, Menorca July - Agusut 

Institutions Collections

ManchesterArt Gallery with “The Cross” with “The Cross”. Mario has become the first emerging Spanish artist to have an artwork in the museum’s permanent collection in a room dedicated to ‘’climate Justice’’

Private Collections

Colección SOLO

Montresso Art Foundation

Coleccion CrIsitina D’anglade

Artling private Collection

Fondazione Benetton 

Private collections in London, Madrid, Florence and Singapore