Colom' latest project draws from a variety of visual languages (printing techniques & technologies, photography, performance, video animation and the artist book format), experiments with their possibilities, creating a unique body of work which is impregnated with his unmistakably sinister sense of beauty.

The resulting project is an exhibition which gathers large scale prints of hyper-real monumental buildings, futuristic mechanised trees, a mystifying video installation which builds on a performance project which is currently work in progress, and A catalogue/artist book which documents the images appearing in the exhibition and provides a ‘bible’ (complete with introduction, cryptic narrative and glossary) for his audience.
Mitos’ background has given him a solid technical and conceptual grounding allowing him to innovate by pushing existing techniques to new limits.

Mitos has shown extensively across Europe, within the context of group shows and as a member of artistic teams. Some of these include: Metápolis 2001 in the Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Art Futura 2001 in the CCCB (Barcelona), in A GESA in the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró (Mallorca), and Marcel.lí Antúnez’s show Pol, which won an award in the 2003 edition of Ars Electrónica 2003.


The Exhibition
Under the title Misión 1977 … y se hizo el silencio, Mitos plays with the aesthetics, jargon and eerie ambiance which characterised 1970’s the sci-fi novels he read as a young teenager.
The artist draws inspiration from Si Fi cinema and literature, such as: Mad Max, 12 Monkeys, Avalon, Blade Runner Kamikaze 1999, Delicatessen, Dr Quatermass’ experiments, Farenheit 251… etc…

The project began taking shape while the young artist was attending a master class by the Spanish photographer and urban myth generator, Joan Fontcuberta, who’s passion for combining truth with fiction until the two become indistinguishable… sparked the chore text which all the pieces subsequently evolved from.

The pieces which comprise it include:
Prints of digital collages on large sheets of brushed aluminium
Animated audiovisual installation
Artist Book as an object
The story of the Voyager Probe contained in the artist book


Some Context
The story titled Voyager Probe is the starting point for the body of work which comprises the exhibition, it lends itself as the theme under which the rest of the pieces have been conceived, and is captured in the format of an artist book as a piece of art in its own right.

Below, an extract of the story:
Voyager is in fact the joint name of two probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both identical in their design, that were launched in 1977 with the aim of exploring a large region of our Solar System. […] Both probes carry with them a golden record that contains a selection of one and a half hours of music from different world cultures, greetings in 55 human languages, a greeting from the UN Secretary General of the time and the experimental “Sounds of the Earth”, a collection of characteristic sounds from our planet. It also includes 115 images explaining the location of the Solar System in scientific diagrams, the units of measure used, characteristics of the Earth and features of the human body and society. The contents of the record were selected by a scientific committee chaired by astronomer Carl Sagan who, in reference to the message, declared that its main intention was not to be deciphered, but rather to be interpreted in itself as a token of the existence of humankind and of our efforts to contact other intelligent species that may exist beyond the Solar System.