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As part of her multifaceted Copper project, which includes performance, video, sculpture and installation, Francesca Marti’ has been working on Copper Venus, a monumental figure made from aluminium, steel cord and copper paint. Here, Marti’s sculpture is seen in its first version as a small, painted model in porcelain and cotton thread in her studio in Mallorca, and then at […]

First installed in 2020, The Believers of Prodrive are 200 figures in mirror-polished aluminum striding up the large wall behind the reception at the headquarters of Prodrive Technologies in Son in the south of the Netherlands. The dynamic, upright figures embody the dynamism and progress of Prodrive, a multi-national company built on the design and manufacture of electronics, software and mechanics. Each

Work is proceeding on the new Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum in Shanghai, which will be inaugurated in 2022 with Dreamers, a double-solo exhibition with works by Xiao Hui Wang and Francesca Marti’.The final stages of construction and fit-out at the monumental new museum will begin after the New Year and the Spring Festival in February. The large-scale Dreamers exhibition

The season’s final of the Rolex Challenge Tour took place at the T-Golf & Country Club Mallorca in early November 2021 and the Gerhardt Braun Gallery organized an art event for the occasion. A selection of monumental outdoor sculptures by artists Heiner Meyer, Ronald Westerhuis, Martin Mas, Francesca Martí, PSJM and Rogelio Olmedo were installed over the golf course and will remain on show through 2022.

Part of the ever-expanding Mallorcan gallery empire of Gerhardt Braun, the Gerhardt Braun Art Lab (Carrer de San Feliu in Palma) presented a selection of works by Francesca Marti’ from the past 25 years. This included large paintings of dancing figures, life-sized Dreamers sculptures, gouaches and new photographs of New York and Shanghai framed in perspex boxes, with crowds of

Francesca Marti’s 10-minute documentary video of herCopper performance staged in Stockholm at the Historiska Museet in May 2021, was premiered on the occasion of the Malmö International Forum on the Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, which took place on October 13-14, 2021. The performance was created by the artist Francesca Martí and co-organised by the

Francesca Marti’s Copper performance took place at the Swedish Historisk Museet in Stockholm on May 24, 2021.  Under the guidance of the artist, the performance featured participants from Sweden, Spain, Iceland, Israel, the UK, Mexico and USA, namely Elias Aaron, Gabrielle Aaron, Esther Bendahan, Concha Diaz Berzosa, Boaz Cohen, Carmelo Eismann, David Finer, Francine Finer, Katt Hernandez,

Francesca Marti’s large Dreamer – Alpha Virginis (2019) in mirror-polished aluminium has been permanently installed at the Paseo Andares shopping centre in Guadalajara. Placed on a marble and black stone plinth, the figure is part of the outdoor art collection of the Paseo Andares ARTE project, commissioned in early 2020.»The idea of this installation is to transmit  a

View of Francesca Marti’s Dutch solo show in the monumental space at MPV Gallery, with Dreamer – Beta Orinois in red, Believers – Purple Energy and a Believers installation with a collection of dynamic figures made from mirror-polished aluminium. Francesca Marti’ continued her long rapport with the Netherlands at her Believers solo exhibition at the MPV Gallery in s’Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, which took