Nacho Martin Silva

Nacho Martín Silva - The direction of the current

Técnica: Oil on linen.

Biografía del Artista: Nacho Martín Silva's work revolves 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 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.

Diptych. 50 x 50 cm each piece. Projected from concerns linked to concepts such as the fragmentary, the simulation and the representation or the plausible and taking the History of Art and Humanity or the creative process itself as axes, "Martín Silva's painting could be described as one of carrying and reconsideration. Carrying not only because, even using this architectural term, the painter can take pre-established images, but because his studio seems to become a kind of warehouse, a storehouse in which images and works accumulate - or attempts at them. These—which may, years later, find a meaning that they did not have when they were pushed aside, discarded for their lack of relevance and opportunity. The studio becomes a kind of wine cellar; these materials see time pass and the artist returns to them, to the barrel to —now yes— transfer them, recover them. This also makes the study a kind of archive of cartographies; in the disorder, in the middle of the search process, almost of disinterested drift through everything accumulated, the author can rediscover renunciations or attempts that, with the passage of time or the circumstances of each project, can become valid and pertinent materials: they are a kind of flashbacks, of returns to a past through those remains that They show you how solutions or newly opened paths (...)” (Pocket Series: Nacho Martín Silva by Juan Francisco Rueda. NocaPaper ed. 2016) The constant concern about how to deal with the underlying theme through painting 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. Among his most recent individual projects are: The future is not what it was, curated by Tolo Cañellas, at Box 27 (Palma), and Pulling the thread until you go blind at JosédelaFuente (Santander) in 2017, and El Gran Estudio, curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa, at the Alcobendas Art Center (Madrid) in 2016. He has participated in collective 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, Espace 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 latest editions of the ARTBO (Bogotá), ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon fairs. He has been awarded the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's Prize for Artistic Creation, with the Support to the Visual Arts of the Community of Madrid, Estampa-Casa de Velazquez Award or Absolut-Jugada a 3bandas Award. A monograph has been dedicated to his work in the Pocket series: Nacho Martín Silva by Juan Francisco Rueda published by Nocapaper in 2016 and has been included in David Barro's 2014 book Before leaving. 40 ideas about painting. ed. Contemporary Art and Energy AIE and DARDO Editorial, 2013.