(image left) Dreamer – Alpha Tauri, 2017, life-sized sculpture in mirror-polished aluminium (image center) Seoul, 2016, recycled satellite dish, paint and photograph printed on zinc plate (image right) Dreamer dog – Shaula, 2017, life-sized sculpture in mirror-polished aluminium   Following her large solo show as one of the five featured artists at the 2nd Brabant Biennale […]

The new 128-page full-colour catalogue for Francesca Marti’s Transformation retrospective at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava, is currently being printed and bound in Palma by Imprenta Bahia. The catalogue has been stylishly designed by hastalasantas graphic design, with essays by the two exhibition curators Pilar Ribal (Mallorca) and Kees van Twist (The Netherlands),

A recent digitally altered photograph from the Flight performance by Francesca Marti’ has been included as part of the LACDA Electron Salon exhibition at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (October 12-November, 2017). As one of 50 participating international artists, Marti’s 2017 photograph shows three figures silently facing the camera in a surreal triple

In 2017, Francesca Marti produced a sculpture of Ma’at, holding a tablet in her hands, but the figure turns the flickering screen away from her. This life-sized sculpture is made from rough-cast aluminium, wrapped in polished “fabric”, and it was exhibited as part of her Kingfisher solo exhibition at the Gerhardt Braun Gallery in Palma

Following her successful crowd-funding project, Francesca Marti’s new «Believers» series is nearing completion. The collection of small sculptures will be mounted as a mass of migrating figures walking across a large wall at Marti’s forthcoming «Transformation» retrospective, opening November 25, at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava, Slovakia. The 99 figures are based on

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,

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,