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.”

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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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DANI MARTI IN CONVERSATION

Join DANI MARTI in conversation with director & curator of UNSW Galleries José Da Silva this afternoon at 5:30pm. Dani will discuss his video and painting practice, in particular his work in the exhibition Friendship as a way of life.

This event will be live-streamed - register your attendance here!

Dani Marti, Notes for Bob, 2012-16, installation view at UNSW Galleries, 2020. Photo by Zan Wimberley

Dani Marti, Notes for Bob, 2012-16, installation view at UNSW Galleries, 2020. Photo by Zan Wimberley

UNSW GALLERIES SHOW REOPENS WITH DANI MARTI

Friendship as a way of life at UNSW Galleries has reopened. This major exhibition celebrates LGBTQI+ partnerships, collaboration, visibility, sex, intimacy and knowledge. It features DANI MARTI’s major video installation ‘Notes for Bob’ (2012-16), as well as one of his wall sculptures. 

Notes For Bob navigates issues of power and care in human relationships. The project has at its central subject a blind, gay man Marti met while on residency in New York with the Australia Council for the Arts in 2012, and it documents a number of exchanges between the pair.

Deprived of vision, Bob explains that for him “people are their voices” and his attractions focus on the individual pitch and tone of a voice. In Notes for Bob, Marti tenderly holds his subject and sings for him. As part of the extended project, Marti filmed and recorded 23 men singing. The artist gently encourages us to enter into Bob’s sensual universe and experience the fullness of an individual through their voice.

The curators of Friendship as a way of life have launched a series of digital initiatives including a virtual tour and an online series of live lectures, artist talks and performative actions that explore the themes of the show. It will run until 21 November. 

Explore the online content here!

Images: Dani Marti, Notes for Bob, 2012-16, installation view at UNSW Galleries, 2020. Photos by Zan Wimberley.

DANI MARTI AT UNSW GALLERIES

Dani Marti, The Pleasure Chest, 2015, second hand necklaces and beads on powder coated aluminium frame, 255 x 170 x 12cm

Dani Marti, The Pleasure Chest, 2015, second hand necklaces and beads on powder coated aluminium frame, 255 x 170 x 12cm

DANI MARTI’s work is on display at UNSW Galleries in ‘Friendship as a Way of Life’ - a new exhibition exploring queer kinship and forms of being together. Presented across the entire gallery and online, this major project seeks to foreground the way LGBTQI+ communities create alternative networks of support through various creative and resourceful means.

Marti is showing two works: a two channel video work, Notes for Bob (2012-14), and a woven necklace wall sculpture The Pleasure Chest (2015). These are prime examples of the seemingly stark division between Marti’s work as a painter/weaver, and a film-maker whose subjects probe the sexual lives of others.

Morgan Falconer says of Marti’s oeuvre, “Marti’s painting-objects are metaphorical, his films are allegorical: both use one thing to describe another. Beads describe their wearer; tales of sex describe a life with or without love. Marti doesn’t pretend to offer up the whole, essential individual to our gaze. Indeed, his work insists on the fact that identity is not a stable essence that can be recognised and captured again and again; instead it is something performed, and it changes each time in the performance.”

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DANI MARTI FINALIST IN ALICE PRIZE

Dani Marti, Dust (Stone), 2019

Dani Marti, Dust (Stone), 2019

Congratulations to DANI MARTI, who is a finalist in the 2020 Alice Prize.

The Alice Prize is an acquisitive national contemporary art prize judged by an expert selection panel in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

Dani’s work Dust (Stone) will be on show in the finalist exhibition at the Araluen Arts Centre.

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ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present Blue on Blue, a new exhibition by Barcelona-born artist, Dani Marti.

Red on Red - Take 2, 2019, customised corner cube reflectors on aluminium, 240 x 357 x 10 cm.

Red on Red - Take 2, 2019, customised corner cube reflectors on aluminium, 240 x 357 x 10 cm.

 In his latest exhibition, Dani Marti’s dynamic woven canvases and sculptural wall pieces explore the communion that exists between the artist and his materials. Marti’s use of industrial, factory-made objects and the nature of his making process – weaving by hand at a large scale – deeply involves his body, his self, in his practice.

Skilfully woven, bent and shaped from a sensuous melange of materials such as polyester and natural ropes, metal threads, beads, reflectors and wire, which Marti affixes onto bespoke aluminium frames, these sculptural constructions have a robust sense of the physicality of their making. The artist’s full body movement is engaged, and his gestural traces are inscribed in these works. For Marti, his process “goes from seconds of ecstasy to hours of torture. It is a very meditative way of working.”

Citing influences such as Lucio Fontana, Kasmir Malevich, and Frank Stella, these works partake of their abstract visual language. In Blue on Blue Marti’s interest in the formal qualities of his materials has reached new heights as he employs a reductive approach to arrest the viewer in the surface and encourage a moment of contemplation. With their luscious monochromatic palette, rich texture, repeated geometric forms, and pure materialism these woven canvases and wall sculptures bring the beauty of minimalism down to earth.

Green on Green (Light/Mixed) and Green on Green (Dark/Mixed), 2019, customised corner cube reflectors on aluminium frame, 105 x 85 x 12 cm (each).

Green on Green (Light/Mixed) and Green on Green (Dark/Mixed), 2019, customised corner cube reflectors on aluminium frame, 105 x 85 x 12 cm (each).

Dani Marti was born 1963 Barcelona, Spain and lives and works between Sydney, Australia and Glasgow, U.K. Working across video, installation and public art, his unorthodox woven and filmic works speak to notions of portraiture and sexuality in Modernism, Minimalism and geometric abstraction. Since 1998, Marti has held over 40 solo exhibitions including, Songs of Surrender, Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf (2020); I AM, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne (2016); and BLACK SUN, commissioned for Perth International Art Festival (2016). Recent group exhibitions include Coterie to Coterie, The Biennale of International Reductive and Non-objective Art, Sydney (2019); Hunter Red: Corpus, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle (2018); Australasian Painters 2007-2017, Orange Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales (2017); The Public Body .02, Artspace, Sydney (2017); Immerse, Sandneskulturhus, Sandnes, Norway (2016);  La Vida es Esto, Domus Atrium, Salamanca (2015); Dark Heart, the Adelaide Biennial (2014), ECONOMY, CCA Glasgow; Stills, Edinburgh (2013); Videonale-14, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2013); Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2011); TOUCH: The portraiture of Dani Marti, a major solo retrospective at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery (2011) ; Social Documents: The Ethics of Encounter, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (2010); Vocal Thoughts, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (2010) and Cinema X: I like to Watch, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2010).  

Dani Marti’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia;  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art; Art Bank, Sydney; Chartwell Collection, Auckland; City Art Gallery, Auckland and the University of Wollongong, N.S.W; MUSAC, Leon, Spain. Marti has completed significant public works including one at Westfield Centrepoint 100 Market St, with John Wardle Architects.  The first major monograph of Marti’s work was published in 2012 by Hatje Cantz.

DANI MARTI AT MUSAC

Dani Marti, The Stamp Collector [cropped video still], 2007, video 6’40min

Dani Marti, The Stamp Collector [cropped video still], 2007, video 6’40min

DANI MARTI's work The Stamp Collector is part of the exhibition Five itineraries with a point of view at MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León). This exhibition celebrates the 15th anniversary of MUSAC and explores five themes that have guided the museum's acquisitions and programming since 2013.

In this video work we see a close-up of a man in a leather suit engaging in a chat exchange. The character remains anonymous - we hear only the sound of the keyboard and see the screen reflected in his glasses. Conflating the genres of portraiture and social documentary, the work displays many of the defining features on Marti's video practice - constrained scale, focus on the body and an intense concentration on an everyday scenario. "I call them portraits as a starting point, as a reference...but these portraits go beyond the person being portrayed - the individuals are just vehicles for something else. It is a search for some kind of abstraction, or maybe you could call it emotion," says Marti.

The exhibition at MUSAC runs until 7 June. 

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Dani Marti, Dust, 2019, customised reflectors on aluminium frame, 110 x 110 cm

Dani Marti, Dust, 2019, customised reflectors on aluminium frame, 110 x 110 cm

Dani Marti is showing this new work Dust in Coterie to Coterie, the inaugural reductive and non-objective biennale event in Sydney, curated by Billy Gruner.

The Biennale of International Reductive and Non-objective Art takes place in three cities, Kyiv, Grenoble and Sydney. 'Coterie to Coterie' opens today between 2-5 pm, also marking the launch of a new venue for the arts and community use in Parramatta, The Stores Building. Over 120 artists from abroad and from Australia are presenting for this event in Sydney.

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