Born in 1954 in Budapest, lives in Toronto.
Neoist movement creator, performer, composer and video maker,
Istvan Kantor-alias Monty Cantsin - draws from rock and mass-culture.
His performances and videos question modern cities confusion
and
affirm the necessityof action, most of the time with subversive
manners.
He is well-known for his participation for hundred of years to
this bloody
game of art as rebellion, and of rebellion as art.
Important character of contemporary artistic movments,
he literaly has cover some cathedrale of art with blood in his
hard labor
project the "Blood Campain", so as to provovate and
bring
one to strong reaction, just like for his bloodstained paintings
on the white walls of the MOMA and of the Ludwig Museum.
Postal art was the perfect vehicle to transmit the ideas of neoism
and has been created so as to resist above all to established
art and to museum culture.
In our technological society, the surviving of peace is controled
by massive destruction machines.
The sound of machinery creates and destroys all thing.
Executive Machinery explores this situation in the most extreme
way:
by the brutal closing of drawers of an office shelving unit
.
By this post millenium noisy symphony of the trans-techno
music archangels of destruction, he uses his machines to make
a definitive
but poetic declaration.
