DANI MARTI featured in 50 Artists: 50 Years exhibition at University of Wollongong

DANI MARTI’s video work Butterflyman will be featured in 50 Artists: 50 Years, a landmark exhibition celebrating five decades of artistic legacy at the University of Wollongong, running from 4 August til 10 December 2025.

The exhibition highlights the diversity and significance of the UOW Art Collection as part of the university’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

On Butterflyman, the artist writes:

“Filmed during my OZCO residency in NYC. I met and filmed Mark in 2010. I saw him again when I got back to NYC in 2012 — he didn’t look too good, and he had lost a lot of weight due to his addiction to meth while living with HIV. We organised a filming session. Three weeks later, I ran into him in the street, and he had developed skin lesions on his face. I asked him to do a second filming session.”

Marti chose to film his friend performing one of his more joyful passions: flagging — a routine commonly performed in gay clubs, inspired by Japanese fan dancing.

Marti’s work explores the intimacy and complexity of surface — how, as seen in Butterflyman, a person’s story can be literally written on their skin.

More information can be found here.

DANI MARTI acquisition by Maitland Regional Art Gallery

We're thrilled to announce that Maitland Regional Art Gallery has acquired Dani Marti's ethereal 'Nude (after Teresa)' (2022).

This glamorous, room-spanning suspended sculpture was a highlight of Marti's exhibition Oh Canola!, a showcase of the artist's large-scale sensual abstraction held at Maitland in 2022.

DANI MARTI to feature in Radical Textiles exhibition at AGSA

Dani Marti, ‘Troughman (the yellow peril)’, 2006, polypropylene, nylon and wood frame on castor wheels, 180 x 180 x 180 cm.

RADICAL TEXTILES

Dani Marti will be showing ’Troughman (yellow peril)' (2005) at Art Gallery of South Australia for the much anticipated Radical Textiles exhibition, opening this Saturday.

From William Morris to Sonia Delaunay, Radical Textiles celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.

RADICAL TEXTILES
📅 23 November 2024 – 30 March 2025
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia

DANI MARTI in 'HIV Science as Art' at Metro Arts

Dani Marti is featureed in HIV Science as Art from 24 July through to 5 August 2023 at Metro Arts in Brisbane, Australia.

HIV Science as Art is an exhibit that highlights some of the world’s best HIV science through art in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on HIV Science. This exhibition bringis the scientific advancements in HIV to life through the work of twelve artists living with HIV from around the world. Proudly presented by IAS and NAPWHA, proceeds from the sale of artwork will go to HIV programs and services in the Asia/Pacific region.

DANI MARTI 'Orifices' Features in 'Inside/Out' at The Night Galleries

DANI MARTI'S 'Orifices' features in the exhibition 'Inside/Out' at the Night Galleries in Kuwumi Place, Newcastle, to celebrate Sydney WorldPride.

Newcastle Art Gallery has partnered with curator Jasmine Fletcher (@flowersandrice), founder of local community organisation Queer and Now, to develop 'Inside/Out', an exhibition that brings together works by local artists with those from the Gallery's collection.

'Inside/Out' speaks to the dichotomy of invisible and visible queer experience. The exhibition celebrates the central role of art in rendering visible the full spectrum of queer experience.

The exhibition opens tonight, 5-8pm.

Dani Marti, 'Orifices', 2000-2005.

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022

Welcome to ARC ONE at SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

From today will be showing a selection of major artworks from some of Australia's most significant contemporary practitioners, including PAT BRASSINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN / CHARLES GREEN, PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, DANI MARTI, JULIE RRAP, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI, CATHERINE WOO, and JOHN YOUNG. We are also proud to be presenting, for the first time, the work of internationally acclaimed artist DESMOND LAZARO.

Our booth is showcasing brand new artworks, alongside some of the most iconic works from ARC ONE Gallery, in celebration of these artists and their significant contribution to contemporary art in this country.

DANI MARTI features in upcoming exhibition 52 ACTIONS

DANI MARTI features in the upcoming exhibition '52 ACTIONS' with his series 'Visual diary part 1 - 3' opening at Penrith Regional Gallery today!

Curated by Artspace and premiering at Penrith Regional Gallery, 52 ACTIONS commences its national tour on Saturday 27 August.

IMAGES: Courtesy of the artist.

Press for DANI MARTI 's exhibition 'Oh Canola!'

Fabulous press for DANI MARTI’S latest exhibition ‘Oh Canola!’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, which was mentioned in the Newcastle Herald.

The main gallery space at Maitland Regional Art Gallery has one big, long wall and Dani Marti has created one work to fill it. It's all yellow, and stretches more than 11 metres. Made of several panels, installed by Marti to flow seamlessly, the wall sculpture titled Oh Canola! is made of almost 10,000 circular reflectors, the kind used along roads, but customised in yellow.
– JO BEVAN

EXHIBITION CLOSING – MAY 29th

Dani Marti's solo exhibition 'Oh Canola!' at Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Dani Marti, Oh Canola!, (detail) 2022, customised reflectors, aluminium, 280 × 1150 × 6cm.

Dani Marti will present a new body of works in his solo exhibition, 'Oh Canola!', at Maitland Regional Art Gallery from 5 March – 29 May 2022.

‘Oh Canola!’ showcases the work of Dani Marti in all its material and textural splendour. Catalan born Marti lives in the Hunter Valley working between Scotland, Spain and the Hunter. Marti surrenders to his materials transforming common industrial fixings (such as rope, nylon, reflectors) into dramatic and monumental forms to transform the gallery into an immersive, sensory experience.

For more info: https://mrag.org.au/exhibition/oh-canola/

DANI MARTI'S WORK SUBJECT OF ESSAY FOR QUEER READINGS OF MUMA COLLECTION

DANI MARTI’s video work Time Is the Fire in Which We Burn and sculpture Time is the Fire (2010) are the subjects of an essay by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, published as part of MUMA’s new writing project: ‘Queer Readings of the Monash University Collection’.

‘Queer Readings of the Monash University Collection’ invites 20 LGBTIQ+ writers to make queer readings of artworks from the MUMA Collection, forming part of MUMA’s ongoing efforts to diversify writing on the Collection and launching alongside their 60th anniversary program in 2021.

Daniel Mudie Cunningham, curator, writer and Director of Programs at Carriageworks, Sydney, writes:

"Marti’s video practice borrows from the codes and questionable ethics of observational documentary. Naming the exchange established between artist and subject as Intimacy Porn foregrounds the arousal of sexual desire for a spectator of images trading in so-called reality. Watching Marti with John is like being at the end of their bed, positioned polyamorously as a viewer hanging on their every word like foreplay for an excised sex act.”

Read more >

Image 1: Dani Marti, 'Time Is the Fire in Which We Burn’ [still], 2009, video, colour, sound; 1 hour 8 minutes 4 seconds; Image 2: Dani Marti, 'Time Is the Fire’, 2010, stainless steel, galvanised iron and copper scourers and galvanised fencing, 220 x 200 cm

DANI MARTI NEW WORKS IN DUSSELDORF

DANI MARTI is currently showing in in the exhibition FARBMATERIAL at the Galerie Lausberg in Dusseldorf.

This body of work, ‘Songs of Surrender’, was made in Barcelona in 2019, where Dani had these beautifully designed ropes custom-made. He uses the lines of rope to create pictorial and sculptural surfaces strung over powder coated aluminium frames, bringing the works into an “object dimension”.

FARBMATERIAL (Colour Material) will continue until 21 March.

You can watch Dani introduce the work here.

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