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Dani Marti

 
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Installation View: 'the seven pleasures of Snow White", 2006
Becoming animal
Nylon and polyester on wood
130 dia x 30 depth
Throughman
Polypropylene and castor wheels on wood
180x180x180cm
Courtesy of Sherman Galleries, Sydney


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Marti’s practice is driven by the simbiology of industrial-everyday materials, craft practices, conceptualism and formalism. He creates dynamic woven constructions and sculptural installations that combine intellect and a sensual minimalism immersed in a Baroque sensibility. There is a strong inflection of portraiture in this series of works which are, in essence, 'swatches' of (fabric) which capture moods, intensities, and personalities
The work is therefore never cold, but recalls the intimacy of fabric in contact with a body; the works become representational not only of states of feelings, but also of regimes of class and power, and the idiosyncrasies of personal psychosexualities.


For Marti, both weaving and (video) taping represent an act of bondage, a ritual which enables the artist to ‘possess’ the person that is portrayed.


My practice is stimulated by what I perceive as challenges within the act of
portrayal. I am fascinated by what lies behind the surface of the subject as
an essence to be grasped or sought after through attempting to re-present
it. The dialectic between the possibility and simultaneous hopelessness of
this endeavour emerges in the abstraction of large-scale woven works, and
videos that borrow from the language of documentary. The formal polarity
that exists between these ways of working is the terrain on which I am able
to examine how in approaching the physical and mediated surface of
information, alternate readings may be generated by the viewer.
   

Dani Marti

1963 born in Barcelona, Spain

Lives and works in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Education

1978–1979 Ramon Gomis, studies in tapestry technique, Barcelona, Spain
1982–1988 MBA, Esade, Barcelona, Spain
1990–1991 Diploma Fine Arts, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
1991–1992 Fine Arts Course, Art Students League, New York
2000 Master of Arts, majoring in sculpture and installation,
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Currently lives and works in Glasgow and Sydney


2006 Master of Fine Arts, Glasgow School of Art

Grants

2007 Newcastle Regional Gallery Residency, Newcastle
Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant
1999 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Glitering Shadows, The Studio, Glasgay Festival, Glasgow
Closer, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Off my noodle, Live Sites, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and Newcastle
City Council, NSW
2006 Dark Bones, Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy
The Seven Pleasures of Snow White, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005 There is nothing at the end of the rainbow, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Viewing Gallery, Sherman
Galleries, Sydney
Orifices 2000–2004 and Looking for Felix 2000, Newcastle Region Art
Gallery, NSW
2004–05 Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Canberra Contemporary Art
Space, Canberra, travelling to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney;
Port Macquarie Hastings Regional Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art
Gallery, NSW; Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW; La Trobe Regional
Gallery, VIC; Monash University Art Museum, VIC
2004 Looking for Rover, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Orifices 2000–04, The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
2003 Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery,
Sydney
Portrait of a young man returning a ladybird to the grass, Arc One
Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Blue angels, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona
Mother is crying, Briefcase Project and Block, Sydney
2001 You make me feel like love, peace and happiness, Gallery 4A, Sydney
I am forever blowing bubbles, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
missing spain, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Enhance Systems and Orifices, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Jamón, La Capella, Barcelona
2000 Thin Wall PB-I, Artspace, Sydney
Coco, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney
Sorry I just dropped my guts, The Lounge, Casula Powerhouse Arts
Centre, Sydney
Looking for felix, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
1999 WS-S#, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2008 Intersections, Casula Power House, Liverpool, Australia (forthcoming)
Glasgow International, Glasgow (forthcoming)
2007 Expanded Painting, parallel exhibition during Miami Basel, Miami
Trouble with the weather, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Cornice Art Fair, Venice
He dominates all, Black Box, Puerto Rico
2006–07 Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter, Newcastle
Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, touring regional
galleries in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland
2006 Tomorrow Now, Foundation Bevilacqua Lamasa, Venice
The Projection Room, coinciding with the Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool
A man’s world, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Love Video 2006, Gallery Sad- Artunison-, Moscow
VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, Girona
Iondromo Film Competition, M+B studio, Venice
Goods to Declare: MFA International, Bezalel Art School, Tel Aviv
Celeste Art Prize, Goldsmiths University of London, The Old Truman
Brewery, London
Marks and Comments, MFA degree show, Tramway, Glasgow and
MoCa, Roskilde, Denmark
Gridlines, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales
I Premio Internacional de Pintura de Castellón, Fundacion Astroc,
Madrid
CREAM Sounding Images, in collaboration with Diana Simpson,
CalArts, Los Angeles
2005 POST, Residence Gallery, London and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
II Premio Internacional de Pintura de Castellón, Espai, Castellon
Glad-Wrap-Up, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, Girona
Academy Now!, sound collaborations with Diana Simpson and Vivian
Barty-Taylor, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
Good and Gruesome, CCA Student Lab Night, Centre for Contemporary
Arts, Glasgow
Arafura Craft Exchange, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
New Town Pasadena, in collaboration with Diana Simpson, Armory
Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Nuit Blanche, Paris
2004 One Of: Festivus 04, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
PistilsI Petals, Fundacio Espais Conteporanis, Girona
2003 Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Summer Show, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
25 years of Mardi Gras, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Canberra Contemporary Art Space and The Art Store Art Award
2003, CCAS, Canberra
2002 Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Summer Show, Arc One at Span, Melbourne
Opening Show, Arc One at Span, Melbourne
Ruin, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne
Dressing and Dreaming, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Archive of Dud Slides, Briefcase, Sydney
2001 Artful Park 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1x1, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Blue angels, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne
Interiors, Object Gallery, Sydney
Plastic by nature, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Ante, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, Imperial Slacks
Gallery, Sydney
2000 Twothousand&99, Exhibition and Performance Space, College of Fine
Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Not quite right, Grey Matter Contemporary Art, Sydney
To exist (24), blue funghi, Grey Matter Contemporary Art, Sydney
1999 Three of a Kind, Gallery 19, Sydney

Collections

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Chartwell Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
University of Wollongong, New South Wales
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Art Bank, Sydney
Peter Fay’s collection, National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Bibliography

John Calcutt, ‘Inside Out’, exhibition catalogue, Glittering Shadows, Q! Gallery, Glasgow
Gerri Williams, ‘Sunday Arts”, ABC Television, 8 July 2007, Australia
Ashley Crawford, ‘Art around the galleries’, p.14 - A2, The Age, 19 May 2007, Melbourne
Penny Webb, ‘Closer at Arc one Gallery’ art review, The Age, 26 May 2007, Melbourne
Lisa Slade, ‘Strange Cargo’, catalogue essay, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition, 2006-2008
Paco Barragan, ‘Heaven & Hell’, Contemporary, issue 86, October 2006 pp. 58–59
Domenico Quaranta, ‘Closer’, exhibition catalogue, Citric, Brescia, October 2006
Paco Barragan, ‘The art of tying ends’, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, February – March 2006
Peter Carrol, ‘Artwork raises a stink Minging’, Glaswegian, 15 June 2006, p. 5
Anthony Gardner, ‘There is nothing at the end of the rainbow’, catalogue essay, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne, March 2005
Rick Rutjens, ‘Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005’, Object, no. 47, p. 44
Allison Gray, ‘Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005’, catalogue essay, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, May 2005, pp. 6–7
Angus Cameron, ‘Arafura Craft Exchange: Fibre 2005’, Australian Art Collector, issue 32, April – June 2005, p. 241
Robert Nelson, ‘Marti ties viewers in knots’, Age, Friday, 20 May 2005
Dominique Angeloro, ‘Negative attitude: Festivus 04’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November – 2 December 2004, p. 26
Victoria Hynes, ‘Tactile textiles’, Australian Art Review, July–October 2004, p. 10
Victoria Hynes, ‘Dani Marti and Holy Holy Holy’, the(sydney)magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2004, p. 94
‘Tactile textiles’, exhibition preview, Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Vogue Living Apartments, June 2004, p. 10
Martyn Hook, ‘House edge: Crown Promenade, Southbank, Melbourne’, Monument, no. 61, June – July 2004, pp. 22–6
Victoria Hynes, Looking for Rover, exhibition catalogue, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, March–April 2004
Desmond Foo, ‘Orifices’, The Straits Times, Singapore, 7 April 2004
Sasha Grishin, ‘Depth in surreal paradise lust’, Canberra Times, Canberra 25 February 2004
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Marinka Ferrier, ‘Knots of seduction’, Artwrite, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003
Robert Nelson, ‘Floating into space’, Age, Melbourne, 7 May 2003
Roger Taylor, Radio interview, RRR, Melbourne, 23 April 2003
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Bruce James, ‘Mardi Gras 25 years show’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 2003
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David O’Halloran, ‘Go inside and freshen up’ (Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award), Broadsheet, vol, 31, no. 2, June – August 2002, p. 22
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Simon Rees, ‘Looking for felix’, Art + Text, no. 73, 2001, p. 87
Victoria Hynes, ‘Weird science’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 22–28 June 2001
Interview with Bruce James: ‘I am forever blowing bubbles…’, Arts Program, ABC Radio, Monday, 11 June 2001
Ann Finnegan, ‘missing spain’, catalogue essay, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, August 2001
Jane Barney, ‘Metis – waste’, catalogue essay, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, May 2001
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, March 2001
Verity Newman, ‘Not quite wrong’, City Sydney Hub, vol. 5, no. 49, 2000
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Alexie Glass, ‘Chez view’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 17–23 November 2000
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Bruce James, ‘Conservation pieces’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2000
Victoria Hynes, ‘Lofty ambitions’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2000
Courtney Kidd, Critic’s picks, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 18–24 August 2000
Ann Finnegan, ‘Coco’, catalogue essay, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney, August 2000
Ann Finnegan, Thin Wall PB-1, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney, February 2000
Bruce James, ‘Pope Alice overcomes strong penis challenge’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 1999

   

Dani Marti

lives and works in Glasgow and Sydney

dani@danimarti.com
www.danimarti.com

   





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