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Dani Marti has crafted new works for his upcoming exhibition ‘Blow’ that focus in on the communion between the artist and his materials; a relationship that is bound within his unconventional ‘canvases’.
Weaving, bending and sewing his materials together by hand, Marti invests each ‘painting' with a rhythm that suggests the performative process of making. Untethering his work from the stories of his heroes and neighbours, Marti now explores the psychology of surface through acrylic, polyester and aluminium.
These new works take on the guise of abstract paintings, with each raw part acting as a fleck of paint. However, instead of resolving into a portrait, landscape, or other appearance, Marti’s materials have a sensual certainty in themselves.
Even though each work strives for the liberating feeling of objectivity, they are inevitably taut with the desires and body of the artist. As these quasi-sculptural forms double and invert on themselves, individual traces of the artist are both bound within the work and unraveled in the process of viewing. Ultimately, Marti’s works elude a concrete reading, favouring the infinite psychologies of colour, surface and texture.