Text by Jonathan Turner In 2000, Francesca Marti’ began her renowned Fly series of black-and-white photographs and collages with painted additions. A fly in her studio had become an unexpected protagonist, when it walked through a mound of pigment and began tracing its steps on a sheet of drawing paper. Marti’ then saw this adventurous, …
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Ultima Hora – 2 de Julio de 2017
The first three sculptures from Francesca Marti’s Believers series have left the studio in Mallorca, and are now being prepared for fusion at the JL Ponce Foundry in Madrid. These standing and walking figures represent a new step, evolving from Marti’s earlier Dreamers sculptures. Striding across the wall in groups, they will be included as …
As part of a new Migrants installation conceived for her traveling retrospective opening at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava in November, 2017, Francesca Marti’ is creating a series of new figures she calls Believers. This a continuation of her ongoing Dreamers project, but for the first time, her androgynous male figures stand up, …
Staged in the prestigious Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea in the centre of the ancient city of Rome, Blow-Up is a review of a century of image-making, studying the innovations and dynamic nature of photography. Organized to coincide with the 2017 Venice Biennale, the Rome exhibition is entitled Blow-Up after the classic 1966 film by Michelangelo …
A recent photograph from Francesca Marti’s series Cities in a Crooked Line, printed on zinc plate and then crumpled by the artist, is included in a large-scale group exhibition of contemporary international photography at Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea in Rome, curated by Giuliano Matricardi. Organized to coincide with the 2017 Venice Biennale, the Rome exhibition …
A recent work from Francesca Martì’s ongoing series Cities in a Crooked Line is included in a show of twelve contemporary European photographers at B2 Espai d’art, in Sòller, Mallorca. Her image is a street scene photographed in Zanzibar, with the colours first manipulated on her computer, printed on zinc-plate, lacquered and then bent and …
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