Nacho Martín Silva

Nacho Martín Silva - The Direction of the Current

Technique: Oil on linen.

Artist Biography: The work of Nacho Martín Silva is articulated around a painting projected from concerns linked to concepts such as the fragmentary, the simulacrum and representation or the plausible. Taking the history of art and humanity or the creative process itself as axes, Martin Silva, maintains a constant concern about how to deal with the Theme background through painting, resulting in a polysemic work that takes different directions in its formalization. Nacho Martín Silva holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he lives and works. His most recent solo projects include Il futuro non è ciò che era, curated by Tolo Cañellas, at Box 27 (Palma), and Tirar del hilo hasta quedar ciego at JosédelaFuente (Santander) in 2017, and El Gran Estudio, curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa, at Centro de Arte de Alcobendas (Madrid) in 2016. He has participated in group exhibitions in museums, galleries and international institutions such as Galerie Sobering in Paris, Espacio Odeón in Bogotá and OTR Espacio de Arte in Madrid, among others, and his work has been shown in the latest editions of the ARTBO (Bogotá) and ARCO Madrid fairs. He has been awarded the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's Prize for Artistic Creation in 2017, and his work is the subject of analysis in the publication Nacho Martín Silva by Juan Francisco Rueda published by Nocapaper in 2016.

 

Diptych. 50 x 50 cm each one of the pieces. Projected from concerns linked to concepts such as the fragmentary, the simulacrum and the representation or the plausible and taking the History of Art and humanity or the creative process itself as axes. History of Art and of humanity or the creative process itself as axes, "Martín Silva's painting could be qualified as one of transportation and reconsideration. Not only because, even using this architectural term, the painter can take pre-established images, but also because his studio seems to become because his studio seems to become a sort of deposit, a warehouse in which images and works -or attempts at them- accumulate. that may, years later, find a meaning that they did not have when they were cornered, discarded for their lack of relevance and opportunity. relevance and opportunity. The studio becomes a kind of cellar; those materials see time go by and the artist returns to them, to the barrel, to -now, yes- to the barrel, to the barrel. to -now yes- to rack them, to recover them. This also makes the studio a kind of cartographic archive; in the disorder, in the process of searching, almost of disinterested drifting through all that has accumulated, the author can find himself again with relinquishments or attempts that, with the passage of time or the circumstances of each project, can make them valid and pertinent materials: they are a kind of flashback, a return to a past through those remains that show him how solutions or paths that have just been inaugurated can be found. show you how solutions or newly inaugurated paths (...)". (Pocket Series: Nacho Martín Silva by Juan Francisco Rueda. ed. NocaPaper. 2016) The constant preoccupation with how to confront the Theme background through painting results in a polysemic work that takes different directions in its formalization. Nacho Martín Silva holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Among his most recent individual projects are Il futuro non è ciò che era, curated by Tolo Cañellas, at Box 27 (Palma), and Tirar del hilo hasta quedar ciego at JosédelaFuente (Santander) in 2017, and El Gran Estudio, curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa, at Centro de Arte de Alcobendas (Madrid) in 2016. He has participated in group exhibitions in museums, galleries and international institutions such as the CICA Palais El Abdelliya (Tunisia), Spring Break Art Show in New York, the Galerie Sobering in Paris, Espacio Odeón in Bogotá, Centro Párraga in Murcia, Centro Centro Madrid, Matadero Madrid, CGAC and OTR Espacio de Arte among others. His work has been shown in the last editions of the ARTBO fairs (Bogotá), ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. He has been awarded with the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's Prize for Artistic Creation, with the Support to the Visual Arts of the to the Visual Arts of the Community of Madrid, Estampa- Casa de Velazquez Award or the Absolut-Jugada Award to 3 bands. A monograph has been dedicated to his work in Pocket series: Nacho Martín Silva by Juan Francisco Rueda published by Nocapaper in 2016. 2016 and has been included in David Barro's 2014 book Antes de irse. 40 ideas about painting. ed. Arte Contemporáneo y Energia A.I.E and DARDO Editorial, 2013.