DANI MARTI

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DANI MARTI is one of Australia’s most playful artists. Challenging local and international audiences, curators, and critics with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven ‘canvases’, video portraiture, and reflective, bespoke objects. Citing influences such as Lucio Fontana, Kazimir Malevich, and Frank Stella. Marti is interested by the juncture where abstraction transitions from clarity to flamboyance, evolving into something richer and more multifaceted.

Dani Marti was born 1963 Barcelona, Spain and lives and works between Sydney, Australia and Glasgow, U.K. Having held over 45 solo exhibitions in 25 years, in 2022 Marti was honoured with a significant mid-career survey at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery. Titled Oh Canola!, this impressive display was devoted to Marti’s show-stopping minimalism. Recently completing a series of major, large-scale sculptures, including the John Wardle Architects project with Westfield Centrepoint, Sydney, Marti is one of Australia’s most in-demand contemporary artists for public and private commissions. Respected by significant curators and critics, Daniel Mudie Cunningham has written an analysis of his seminal 2009 video work; while in 2021 well-known art supporter and philanthropist Simon Mordant AO curated Marti in the international showcase Terra Australis Revisited at Hilger Next, Vienna.

One of the most important events on the local arts calendar, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, featured Marti’s work in their striking, highly publicised 2014 exhibition Dark Heart, under the leadership of Nick Mitzevich (then the Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, now Director of the National Gallery of Australia). Noting the powerful presence of Marti’s installation, the Art Gallery of South Australia acquired the work for their collection. In addition to this major acquisition, Dani Marti’s work is also held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales; The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Art Bank, Sydney; Chartwell Collection, Auckland; City Art Gallery, Auckland, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria, and the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. 

The first major monograph of Marti’s work was published in 2012 by Hatje Cantz.