 Esperanza 2003 Acrylic on Canvas |
 Homenaje Series 2002 Acrylic on canvas 250 x 170 cm |
 Ovalolino 2005 Acrylic on canvas 87 x 118 cm |
 Ovalo1 2005 Acrylic on canvas 100 x 150 cm |
Marta Marce's paintings don't namecheck anyone, or picture anything, or evoke a mood...a painting resembles a scalextric set...I kept coming back to it, and it looked better every time.
Jonathan Jones, the Guardian
Marta Marce's work is a highpoint in the show of work by artists shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize.
Charles Darwent, The Independent on Sunday
Jonathan Jones, the Guardian
Marta Marce's work is a highpoint in the show of work by artists shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize.
Charles Darwent, The Independent on Sunday
Pasajero
In her second solo show at Riflemaker - a bold new exhibition of large scale paintings and floor works, Catalonia born, London-based artist Marta Marce continues her previous conceptual investment in game theory and universal methodologies of play by exploring the relationship between the dual forces of order and chaos as they manifest themselves in the play of the ancient stick game of Mikado.
In Pasajero, using the given framework of Mikado, wherein players cast sticks in order to read their destiny in them, Marce conducts and exploits her painterly mode to unearth, in every line and colour decision, something fundamentally visual in the idea of the game. It is in Mikado that Marce sees a perfect demonstration of the fundamental balance of binary forces in the world, the game here representing an energetic example of the complex states of life in which we are all continually engaged.
In casting down our lot - by playing the game - we actively engage the dual forces of order and chaos.
This idea is equally extendable to the microcosm of the painter’s world. In painting, via practice-based development, the rules of medium are established and a methodological order is set. Ever existent however, is the potential to challenge this order through the spontaneous gesture and passionate movement of inspired creative action. Marce then, as an artist who continues to reinvent her painterly medium with an unceasing zest and originality, is at one with this schism, understanding both order and chaos as necessarily coexistent forces.
Considering these works then, we must appreciate a three-fold relationship between, the game, painting and life itself. By investigating this trinity, Marce re-energises her work with a beautifully raw essential force.
A clear and apparent élan reels from outwards from Marce’s canvases, and now In a new development, for the first time in London, she introduces a three dimensional element into her oeuvre – with one of the central works in the show being a fully interactive version of Mikado.
So come, play and discover how Marta Marce - through her exploitation of game dynamics - relates some fundamental realities intimate to the ecology of existence itself…
In Pasajero, using the given framework of Mikado, wherein players cast sticks in order to read their destiny in them, Marce conducts and exploits her painterly mode to unearth, in every line and colour decision, something fundamentally visual in the idea of the game. It is in Mikado that Marce sees a perfect demonstration of the fundamental balance of binary forces in the world, the game here representing an energetic example of the complex states of life in which we are all continually engaged.
In casting down our lot - by playing the game - we actively engage the dual forces of order and chaos.
This idea is equally extendable to the microcosm of the painter’s world. In painting, via practice-based development, the rules of medium are established and a methodological order is set. Ever existent however, is the potential to challenge this order through the spontaneous gesture and passionate movement of inspired creative action. Marce then, as an artist who continues to reinvent her painterly medium with an unceasing zest and originality, is at one with this schism, understanding both order and chaos as necessarily coexistent forces.
Considering these works then, we must appreciate a three-fold relationship between, the game, painting and life itself. By investigating this trinity, Marce re-energises her work with a beautifully raw essential force.
A clear and apparent élan reels from outwards from Marce’s canvases, and now In a new development, for the first time in London, she introduces a three dimensional element into her oeuvre – with one of the central works in the show being a fully interactive version of Mikado.
So come, play and discover how Marta Marce - through her exploitation of game dynamics - relates some fundamental realities intimate to the ecology of existence itself…
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