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Àlex Mañé Montané
Artist/
Handicraft Artist

Àlex Mañé Montané

Handicraft Artist

Bio

Àlex Mañé (b. 1974, Barcellona) lives and works in Barcellona. Recycling, giving a second chance to things she finds on the street, or collects from her friends and other people, or recycles at her workplace. They are all treasures for Àlex Mañé to recycle and turn into art. The main themes he is inspired by are: abuse of power, social denunciation (which includes all political, sexual, labor and many other inequalities), gender equality, race equality, nature, environment, human evolu-tion, historical memory). His main goal is to awaken human awareness of topics he considers important to the planet and memories. His creations are full of encrypted messages and differ-ent readings and possibilities (depending on the viewer's perception) as hidden puzzles, such as could be conceptually, "crossword puzzle," alphabet soup or "sudoku." The artist likes to combine magazines, newspapers, books, pictures, postcards, CD covers, posters, comics, any-thing from different decades, people who have left a mark in history to accentuate the narrative of the work. The artist's work Byte me! deals with issues of fundamental importance and extreme topicality. He talks about everyday life, about the communication that individuals enjoy every day through television and social media. The individual according to the artist is manipulated by the popularized mediocrity. commercial conflicts, of interests, is a power game under differ-ent flags and control by superpowers. Àlex Mañé asks the viewer to disconnect from society in order to reconnect with life and people. He invites one to choose consciously and not to do so because one is forced to. Everyone is the creator of Resistance and one must seek the truth even if it is difficult to accept. In contrast, the work Censorship deals with the issue of censorship in social networks. Their algorithmic artificial intelligence programs identify key words to censor and eliminate what they consider "undesirable, false or harmful words or content" even if free of social immorality for being against the system and the grand deception of globalism and infor-mation power under the control of the "hand that shakes humanity." As if artists are creative terrorists for their way of telling the story through art. To be dealt with last is the topic of Pe-dophilia, particularly in reference to the various cases linked to the Catholic Church. The artist's is a cry for attention, in fact it is urgent to protect the future of our children, their physical integ-rity and their emotional and mental health. 2012 - Versàtils de carrer, Artists Collective, Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona; 2013 - Versàtils de carrer, Artists Collective, Centre Julol-Can Negre, Barcelona; 2013 – Artist Love, Artists Collective, Zen Tao International, Barcelona; 2014 - Walking Gallery, Art Collective, Barcelona; 2020 - M.A.D.S ART GALLERY International Contemporary Exhibition "FABLE"; 2021- 2023 - EXCELLENCE ART GALLERY (Marbella, Spain), International Art Fair in Marbella, Parisand Montecarlo.

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