![]() On the Floor 1 2006 |
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![]() Not Me 2 2006 |
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![]() Sense 2006 |
![]() On My Way I 2007 |
![]() Sense 4 2006 |
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![]() Velvet Taboo VII 2007 |
![]() 4 a.m. 2007 |
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![]() Yes, I do! IV 2007 |
![]() Yes, I do! 2007 |
![]() Deep into the Blue I 2008 |
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| Francesca Martí was born in Sóller, Mallorca (Spain) in
1957. She lives and works in Mallorca A photographer, painter, sculptor and installation artist, Francesca Martí creates powerful work which is an unusual combination of many art forms, including music and dance. The human figure is a constant presence, although in the past, series of her works have also been dedicated to such themes as fire and the household fly. She cites such diverse artists as Kees van Dongen, Wilfredo Lam and Shirin Neshat as influences, particularly for their sense of freedom and the ways in which they altered reality. In many of Martí's photographs, the skin of her human subjects have been splashed with paint. The artist later applies paint over the photographs themselves, further breaking down the barriers between the photographic document and the expressive gestures of action panting. Since 2002, Martí has introduced video into her installations, whereby the filmed movement of dancers are projected across the surfaces of her monochrome canvases. Heads and moving body parts emerge from holes torn through the paintings, distorting the figures, and confusing the ideas of what is real, what is painted, what is filmed and what is imagined. In this way the classical portrait is transformed into a dynamic image. Jonathan Turner |
| Francesca Martí - Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2010 |
Contemporary video-art from Germany, Spain, Brasil, Espai d’art B2, Soller (Spain) |
| Matt Dive Gold, Smith & Hall, Sydnay (Australia) | |
| 5th International Sculpture Symposium, Jordan National Gallery of Fine arts, Amman (Jordan) | |
| Passion is the difference, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
2009 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Matt Dive Gold, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Roma (Italy) | |
| Still in Motion - The 10th Anniversary, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
2008 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Dubai Art Fair, PYO Gallery, Dubai (UAE) | |
| MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, PYO Gallery, Cologne (Germany) | |
| 25 Anys, Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
2007 |
Art Cologne, Galería Altair, Cologne (Germany) |
2006 |
Fundació Tren de l'Art, Sóller Railway Station, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
| Art Has Balls, Atomium, Brussels (Belgium) | |
| Art Cologne, Galería Altair, Cologne (Germany) | |
| Arco, Galería Altair, Madrid (Spain) | |
2005 |
Art Cologne, Galería Altair, Cologne (Germany) |
| Pensar amb les formes, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Cotemp., Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| Arte gráfico español contemporáneo, Instituto Cervantes, Damascus (Syria) | |
2004 |
Art Miami, Galería Altair, Miami, Florida (USA) |
| Arco, Galería Altair, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Arte gráfico español contemporáneo, Instituto Cervantes, (Tunisia) | |
| Arte gráfico español contemporáneo, Instituto Cervantes, Cairo (Egypt) | |
| Art Cologne, Galería Altair, Cologne (Germany) | |
| Com es fan les imatges, La Llonja, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
2003 |
Com es fan les imatges, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (Germany) |
| Der Verwandelte Blick, Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck, Munich (Germany) | |
2002 |
Estampa 2002, Galería Blanca Soto, Madrid (Spain) |
| Corp Esquís, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca (Spain) | |
| Lineart, Galerie Paule de Boeck, Gent (Belgium) | |
| Arco, Galería Altair, Madrid (Spain) | |
2001 |
Escultures de pintor. Una veritat possible, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
| La imagen acosada, Galería María José Castellví, Barcelona (Spain) | |
| Arte Lisboa, Galería Altair, Lisbon (Portugal) | |
| Animalia, travelling exhibition, Binissalem, Mallorca, Valencia (Spain) | |
| Biennale of Alexandria, Alexandria (Egypt) | |
| New Acquisitions, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| Arco, Galería Altair, Madrid (Spain) | |
| XXXV Prix International d'Art Contemporain, Prince Ranieri Foundation, Monaco (Montecarlo) | |
| Lineart, Galerie Paule de Boeck, Gent (Belgium) | |
2000 |
Lineart, Galerie Paule de Boeck, Gent (Belgium) |
| Artissima, Galería Altair, Torino (Italy) | |
| La generació prodigiosa, Casal Ca S'Hereu, Llucmajo (Spain) | |
1999 |
Art Miami, Galería Altair, Miami, Florida (USA) |
1998 |
Col-leció Testimoni, La Caixa, Zaragoza (Spain) |
1997 |
Arco, Galería Altair, Madrid (Spain) |
1996 |
Nadal 96, Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
1994 |
Col-leció Testimoni, La Caixa, Barcelona, (then travelling through Spain) |
1993 |
Cinquanta-quatre dones per una dona, Centre de Cultura Sa Nostra, Barcelona, Catalonia, baleares (Spain) |
1991 |
Cinco escultores, Galería Norai, Pollença, Mallorca (Spain) |
| Francesca Martí - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2012 |
Crazy Vibes, Galleria il Ponte Contemporanea, Roma (Italy) |
2009 |
Tears, Espon Kunstbetrieb, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Break Free, PYO Gallery, Beijing (China) | |
2008 |
Soul, Museo Villa Nazionale Pisani, Venezia (Italy) |
| Echoes, Es Baluard Museu, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| No More Tears, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Senses, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy) | |
| Soul, Real Academia de España en Roma, Roma (Italy) | |
2007 |
Soul, Spanish National Pavillon, X International Biennale Cairo, Cairo (Egypt) |
| Soul, The G. Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel) | |
| Soul, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman (Jordan) | |
2006 |
Movements, Apothiki Art Center, Paros (Greece) |
| Movements, Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| When the Music Meets Visual Arts, with the Orchestra of the Low Lands, Brussels (Belgium) | |
2003 |
Galería Blanca Soto, Madrid (Spain) |
2002 |
What Are You Looking at?, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca (Spain) |
| Music and Fly (with Dirk Brossé), Costa Nord, Valldemosa, Mallorca (Spain) | |
2000 |
"Amb ella...", Paule de Boeck Fine Arts, Gent (Belgium) |
| "Amb ella...", Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
1999 |
Andamos Solos, todos, Paule de Boeck Fine Arts, Gent (Belgium) |
1998 |
The Bruton Street Gallery, London (UK) |
| Galería Àmbit, Barcelona (Spain) | |
| Hotel La Residencia, Deià, Mallorca (Spain) | |
1997 |
Ombra en la cendra, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
1995 |
Galería Altair, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
1994 |
Hotel La Residencia, Deià, Mallorca (Spain) |
1993 |
Banca March, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
| La Caixa, Sóller, Mallorca (Spain) | |
1992 |
Galería Sebastià Jané, Barcelona (Spain) |
1991 |
Galería Joan Oliver Maneu, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) |
| Francesca Martí - Private and Corporate Collections | |
| Ajunteament de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| Her Royal Highness, Sofia of Greece (Greece) | |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA) | |
| Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| Colleció Testimoni, La Caixa (Spain) | |
| Banca March, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |
| Fernand Huts Foundation, Brussels (Belgium) | |
| Foundation Vanderkerchove, Brussels (Belgium) | |
| BBL Collection, Lambert Bank (Belgium) | |
| Grup Serra, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) | |