Susana Martin

I was trained in architecture.

Since my beginning, I have worked in painting, furniture design, objects, textiles, digital art, etc.

My references were and are Malewich, Mondrian, Jean Arp, Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Joseph Beuys, Kounelis, Donald Judd, Pollock, Sol Lewitt, Hans Richter, Louise Bourgeois ..

From the point of view of technique, I have been working for years with woods that I cover with elastic fabrics. Years ago I had already incorporated the meshes into the painting to cover it, leading to multiple evolutionary processes, unleashing the sculpture that I covered with stockings, pantyhose, in small format. Currently I work with lycras, neoprene, foam rubber in a larger and flatter format. A constant interest in the search for materials and their mixtures.

Currently, I could place myself working in an ambiguous space between painting and sculpture, painting made with fabrics, fabrics that form structures.

I provoke a meeting of materials. It is within the encounter that I am interested in discovering something new. I work on simplicity and on penetrating the essence of the form that arises with this interaction. If I pursued something rational and concrete, it would lead me to the usual path. I could formally encompass myself in minimalism, although to me it still seems like a dogmatic current, which completely excludes what happens outside the form it represents.

Formally I identify myself, but the forms that I represent do not originate in a purely formal way. I do not intend to highlight anything concrete, only to take myself through the emptiness of an existence to a dreamlike, abstract world and not to wake up to this world of such tangible appearance.

Exhibitions:

1985. First Prize, International Art and Architecture Fair, Bilbao.
1987. Collective Art Design “El Local” by the architect Sergio Rodríguez Casanueva, Madrid.
1987. Collective Silver Jewelry Design, Madrid.
1988. Young Art Collective, Art Community College, Baltimore.
1988. Collective Art, House of Spain, Baltimore.
1989. Collective Art, Charles Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1989. Collective Art, Ariel Gallery, New York.
1990. Design Collective, “Olio Fiat Ibérica”, Madrid.
1990. Collective Art, Donatello Cultural Association, Padua.
1991. Individual, La Cúpula Gallery, Padua (Italy)
1992. Collective Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice.
1993. Collective Art, Catalonia Cultural Association, Venice.
1993. Individual, Fondazione Culturale Spagna-Italia, Venice.
1996. Collective Art, Galeria Gayo-Arte., Madrid.
1999. Collective Design “New style”, Madrid.
2000. First Prize, Ateval International Textile Design Contest, 2000 edition, Valencia.
2001. Individual “Visual Sequences”, digital art, “Malone” gallery, Madrid.
2001. Third Prize International Textile Design Contest, 2001 edition, Valencia.
2001. Textile Design Award, edition of Flecotex, Valencia.
2001. Collective Design Award “Yellow Vibram Galeria Da Milano, Milano
2001. Design Collective “mezzo uovo”, Milan Furniture Fair.
2001. Collective Finalists. Art Contest, International Automobile Exhibition and Arteexpo, 2001 edition, Barcelona.
2002. Collective Design Contest Takamäki Nokia, Design boom, Milano.
2002. Design Collective, Salón Satélite, Milano.
2003. Design Collective, Itinerant Exhibition “Spanish Design Passion”. Textile design, Berlin, Brazil, and Salamanca.
2004. Collective Digital Art, Galeria Representarte.com, photo-design. Barcelona.
2004. Collective Digital Art “Diesel”, Milano.
2005. Collective Digital Art “Interchangeable Urban Visual Poetry MAD ’03”, Madrid.
2005. Digital Art – Graphic Design, Showroom, Salon Satelite, Milano.
2007. Collective Foto Digital, graphic design and furniture design. “Rocking chairs” Designboom Competition, Milano.
2009. Virtual Photography Collective “Eye of Fish”, Madrid.
2009. Collective of photography and digital art, Espacio arte menos1, Madrid.
2012. Collective Art Fundación de Arte de Medinaceli, Soria.
2012. Individual, “Another skin” Gallery Dionis Bennasar, Madrid.
2014. Collective Art Foundation of Medinaceli, Soria.
2015. Contemporary Art Collective Palace of the Audience of Soria.
2016. Individual, “Visible” Cruz Bajo Espacio Arte Contemporáneo. Madrid.
2016. Art Collective Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid.
2018. Flecha Art Fair, Madrid.
2018. Studio Arte, Lisbon
2018. Osten Biennail, Skopje Macedonia.
2018. Golden Osten award, Skopje Macedonia
2019. Guest artist International Textile Art Biennial, Madrid