A Catalan painter who spent his childhood in Paris as a result of the Spanish Civil War. In 1940 he returns to Barcelona and seven years later he travels to the USA, where he meets Salvador Dalí and discovers his desire to become and artist. He spends the following years refining his focus, gets to know the Dau al Set group, and becomes interested in Bauhaus and Cézanne’s artwork. In the early fifties, he meets Duchamp in Cadaqués, which leads him to take on a new artistic language. Between 1966 and 1972, he works on a series of representations of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. From 1980 onwards, he regularly exhibits in Paris, as well as Madrid, New York and Washington.
Marcel Martí is considered to be one of the great contemporary Catalan sculptors, representative of the renewal movement emerging in Barcelona in the post-Civil War years. A self-taught artist, he always showed an interest in sculptural monumentalism within an urban context. He created perfectly-finished compositions with sensual, simple, neat forms, which reflect an organicist language reminiscent of Gaudí’s modernism. They are works that arise from a combination of concave and convex elements, an austere substrate and refined lines in which the struggle between abstraction and figuration takes place.
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