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New sculptures and installations by Francesca Marti’ will be included in the 27th edition of the Rohkunstbau opening this summer at the Altdöbern Castle, in Altdöbern, 120 kms south east of Berlin. Curated by Dr. Heike Fuhlbrügge, the exhibition is titled Future – Into the Open, and features work by 15 international contemporary artists. A catalogue will be published.Artists: Thorsten Brinkmann, …

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Gerhardt Braun Gallery travels from Palma to Madrid to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “CHANGE” in our Pop-Up Gallery at Calle Doctor Fourquet 10 in Madrid. The exhibition will remain open to the public from Wednesday, February 23, 2022 to Tuesday, March 15, 2022 CHANGE presents the artistic and cultural change with which we live. CHANGE is work from different …

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While she was in Madrid during ARCO 2022, Francesca Marti’ assembled and unveiled one of her latest photo-based installations at the showroom of Chlorofila Digital photo lab near the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Prado Museum. Marti’s work depicts the human bustle at the Parque del Buen Retiro, literally «Park of the Pleasant Retreat», built in the 17th Century …

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In preparation for the forthcoming Dreamers exhibition in China, which will highlight the connections and visual echoes existing between artworks by Xiao Hui Wang and Francesca Marti’ created since the late 1990s, a series of informal testimonials have been filmed by different curators, critics, collectors and colleagues. Talking about Francesca’s style and influence, these videos will be broadcast …

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Several new large-scale sculptures and photo-installations by Francesca Marti’ are currently on show in the gallery space at Gerhardt Braun Art Lab in Carrer de Sant Feliu in downtown Palma. Made from cast and polished aluminium, and partly coated in pink lacquer, Ma’at (2018) represents the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and cosmic order, wrapped in a shroud, …

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In a happy coincidence, at the same time that Francesca Marti’s Copper Venus was being produced in Madrid as one of her tallest ever sculptures, Khalid Khreis, director of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, sent photographs to Marti’s studio showing what is actually her tallest ever statue. At 380 cm high and made …

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Made from polished stainless steel by the YidongLianChuang Foundry in Beijing, Francesca Marti’s larger than life-sized Dreamer – Altair (2021) has been delivered to the Zhuzhong Contemporary Art Museum in anticipation of her forthcoming exhibition there (date still to be announced). Below are photos of the unfinished sculpture outside the foundry workshops in China.

As part of her multifaceted Copper project, which includes performance, video, sculpture and installation, Francesca Marti’ has been working on Copper Venus, a monumental figure made from aluminium, steel cord and copper paint. Here, Marti’s sculpture is seen in its first version as a small, painted model in porcelain and cotton thread in her studio in Mallorca, and then at …

Copper Venus – work in progress in the foundry in Madrid Leer más »

First installed in 2020, The Believers of Prodrive are 200 figures in mirror-polished aluminum striding up the large wall behind the reception at the headquarters of Prodrive Technologies in Son in the south of the Netherlands. The dynamic, upright figures embody the dynamism and progress of Prodrive, a multi-national company built on the design and manufacture of electronics, software and mechanics. Each …

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Work is proceeding on the new Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum in Shanghai, which will be inaugurated in 2022 with Dreamers, a double-solo exhibition with works by Xiao Hui Wang and Francesca Marti’.The final stages of construction and fit-out at the monumental new museum will begin after the New Year and the Spring Festival in February. The large-scale Dreamers exhibition …

Coming soon to Shanghai: the new Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum Leer más »