ARTIST PROFILE

Jose Luis Martinat

ホセ・ルイス・マルティナット
[ Sweden ]

MESSAGE

My work has been characterized by an interest in images as pure artificial constructs and how, through them, we recognize, perceive, and access reality. In recent years, this interest has expanded to different forms of representation where images, language, and definitions coexist. I am particularly drawn to representations that carry cultural codes and discourses arbitrarily imposed. In the words of Roland Barthes: “Representations are formations, but they are also deformations.”
In the works I exhibit, I mostly use pre-existing material (images, video, audio, and text) that I appropriate, manipulate, and alter in order to create new associations.

PROFILE

Jose Luis Martinat [Sweden]

José Luis Martinat (Lima, 1974) is based in Halmstad, Sweden. He studied at the Malmö Art Academy and the School of Photography and Film at the University of Gothenburg. Martinat is a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates a wide range of techniques and media—including sculpture, drawing, video, sound, and textiles—depending on the concept and nature of each project.

His recent solo exhibitions include Resolutions and Dissolutions at Nosco Gallery in Brussels, País con Futuro at Galería Vigil Gonzales in Buenos Aires, and Splendor & Fall at Ginsberg Gallery in Lima, Peru.

He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Det ska växa: textila uttryck som offentlig konst (Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm), Jag föreställer mig ett hem (Gothenburg Art Hall), and Contemporáneo 1: Materia, alquimia y flujo (MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima).

Martinat is represented in the collections of Malmö Art Museum, Lima Art Museum (MALI), Gothenburg City Art Collection, Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens Konstråd), MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Archives, as well as in several prominent private collections.

PREVIOUS WORKS

  • Carnival (2021) 180 cm x 190 cm metallic thread on found plastic textile.

  • Progress I (2019) 142 cm x 171 cmmetallic thread on construction safety net.

  • The Commissioned Drawings Project (2007- 2023) Still picture from The Commissioned Drawings video (20 min)

  • Resolutions & Dissolutions (2024) each polyptych 85 cm x 127 cm Cyanotype on paper

  • Agave I (2014) 2,10 m x 3 m Foam, resin and concrete, metal structure in collaboration with Jose Carlos Martinat.

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