Mario Paniego is a conceptual and visual artist. He takes art as an excuse for living and a way to discover the world and himself. He likes to learn in every project he works on using different media attending to the nature of the project. He took his degree in fine arts at the University of the West of England. And he did his PhD studies at the University of the Basque Country. He also has an MA in Design Management (University of the Basque Country) and an MA in Cultural Management (University of Alcalá de Henares). He has shown his works in Argentine, Chile, Croatia, Germany, England, Czech Republic, South Korea and Spain. Parallel to this he has worked teaching at the university and in some many other different works.

In Wrocław, during his residency between October and November this year, Paniego works on the subject of publicity in city’s public space, analysing both good and bad practices, city policies as well as comparing them with these implemented in his hometown Bilbao. Through several interventions in Wrocław’s public space, the artist tries to make us more conscious about the ‘visual noise’ that daily accompanies us on the streets of modern cities. That constant ‘noise’ or ‘visual pollution’, Paniego says, occupies too much space in our streets and lives. The streets are more and more owned by the advertising, the companies and the consumerism, and less and less by the people and their relations, nature and architecture.

You can have a closer look at Paniego’s work at the Nadodrze Infopoint on 15th November at 19:00. The meeting, including a participation of representatives of local organisations, aims not only to present Paniego’s research, but also to discuss the condition of modern cities. Can we imagine them without publicity?