Nacho Martin Silva

Nacho Martín Silva - Après la fête

Biografía del Artista: Nacho Martín Silva's work is articulated around a painting projected from concerns linked to concepts such as the fragmentary, the simulacrum and representation or the verisimilitude. Taking the History of Art and of humanity or the creative process itself as axes, Martín Silva Silva maintains a constant concern for how to confront the underlying theme through painting, which results in a polysemic work that takes different directions in its formalization. Nacho Martín Silva has a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, the city where he lives and works. His most recent individual projects include Il futuro non è ciò che era, curated by Tolo Cañellas, at Box 27 (Palma), Tirar del hilos hasta quedará ciego (Tug of the Thread Until I Get Blind) at JosédelaFuente (Santander) in 2017, and El Gran Estudio (The Great Studio), curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa, at the 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 at the latest editions of the ARTBO (Bogotá) and ARCO Madrid fairs. He was 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.

The painter Nacho Martín Silva presents his new work Après at ARCO 2023 The party. The painting takes as its reference a part of the room in the Pompidou Museum dedicated to André Breton and his studio, a recurring image in the work of the Madrid painter. Alongside this image, he introduces paintings that reproduce the drawings made by his daughter and her friends from school at the party for her 5th birthday. The party was held in Nacho's studio, where the walls were wallpapered and the attendees were invited to intervene in the space as they wished. Après la fête belongs to a group of works in which Nacho addresses the relationship between surrealism and magical and childlike thinking, automatic drawing in childhood versus adult intention. This relationship addressed by surrealism or by the figure of Picasso in his interest in painting like a child again, raises the impossibility of this adult desire that is still a copy of the true creative essence of childhood. This reflection could well be connected with the relationship between models of representation and their pictorial translation, a theme present throughout the painter's work.