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Born in Lower California, Mexico, Ignacio Montano is an artist of fervid seem to belong to an extraterrestrial dimension, parallel to ours: They
creativity who lives and works in Chicago, USA. Driven since always by introduce and guide us in a journey through futuristic landscapes,
an artistic vocation, he enrols at the Medical Faculty but then he follows planets, buildings and extraterrestrial structures, technological vehicles
his inclination by entering the Art School, where soon he discovers the and aliens, unreal formal compositions where every element of the
rigidity of academic rules, too limiting for his imagination and expressive painting dialogues with others, creating fascinating and spectacular
freedom; therefore he prefers to abandon any school or program to sceneries at the limit of visionary. To understand this artist in depth,
autonomously develop his own style through an experimentation an important year must be recalled, 1976, when the spacecraft viking
path that is still pursuing, proving to be a professional, talented artist landed on Mars; this is an event that deeply marks Montano's artistic
constantly involved in growth and research. Montano's paintings life, as he even confirms it.

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