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until 25.11. | #4012ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Neue Arbeiten by the artist Marta Guisande, *1965, Seville, Spain) at BERLIN ART WEEK 2023.
Marta Guisande is a painter who applies the colour material she uses – such as egg tempera, casein, acrylic and sometimes oil – swiftly and spontaneously onto unprimed cotton fabric. Some of Marta Guisande’s artworks are also created by soaking the fabric in the respective colour substances.
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023
Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider
In her works, the artist follows the painterly means and the material in all consistency, also insofar as Marta Guisande’s working process up to the valid creation of the picture includes moments of observation, reflection and doubt about what is being created or what has been created before. Guisande’s works, which often oscillate between the monochrome and its many shades, are formed in the course, layering, overlaying and removal of the paint.
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023
Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider
In some cases, graphic lines are drawn or scratched into the still liquid-wet or at times already dried skin of the painting – sometimes biomorphic, sometimes geometrically shaped.
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023
Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider
In her course of work and perception, Marta Guisande occasionally changes sides: then the reverse side of the cotton fabric, which was previously seen in this way, becomes the ground and front side for her subsequent further artistic treatment. In this, too, a pictorial experience is followed, the avoidance of the cliché or a copy.
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023
Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider
In the same sense, Marta Guisande also does not shy away from stretching or re-stretching the fabric onto a larger stretcher frame relative to the dyed surface, whereby the frame that may be necessary for the effect in the specific case is created in and as the picture itself.
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023
Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider
Marta Guisande’s work create breathing picture surfaces, from which the traces of all the previously applied, deeper layers of paint can emerge again. Not infrequently, these paintings glow, as it were, on their own.
Marta Guisande
1965 born in Sevilla
1987-1991 Studies of Art and Art History, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
1988 Prize of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
1989 Guest semester at the University of the Arts, Beijing
1991 Erasmus Scholarship of the European Union
1991-1996 Studied painting with Prof. Gotthard Graubner (master student) and Prof. David Rabinowitch (master student)
1997 Paris Scholarship Cité de Beaux-Arts, Paris
Lives and works in Cologne
Exhibitions (selection)
2022 Antipoden, Galerie m (Gruppenausstellung); Malerei, Gestus und Fläche, KunstRaum Duisburg (Gruppenausstellung); 2021 abhanden, kajetan Berlin (zusammen mit Bea Otto); Freshtest 7.0, Kunstverein Koelnberg, (Gruppenausstellung); 2018 Möglichkeiten von Malerei, Märkisches Museum Witten (Gruppenausstellung); 2015–2016 Marta Guisande, Galerie m Bochum; 2014 Weiss – Aspekte einer Farbe in Modern und Gegenwart, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; 2013 Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises. Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not, kubh Kunstverein Köln; 2012 Raketenstation, Stiftung Insel Hombroich (Solo); 2009 Städtische Galerie Iserlohn (Solo, Katalog); 2008 Neue Malereien, Galerie m, Bochum (Solo); 2003 Kunstverein Heilbronn; 2002 Neue Bilder, Galerie m, Bochum (Solo); Kunstverein Ahlen (zusammen mit Paco Fernandez); Kunstverein Erfurt (Solo, Katalog); 2001 wesentlich: Farbe, Galerie m, Bochum; 2000 Dauerinstallation einer Gruppe von raumbezogenen Bildern in der Matthäuskirche, BochumWeitmar; 1998 Malerei, Galerie m, Bochum (zusammen mit Kirsten Waldmann); 1997 Bilder, Kunstverein Braunschweig (Solo, Katalog); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; 1996 Kohle und Öl, Raum 023, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Solo); 1992 Zeichnungen, Palazzo Villa Carlota, Como
Opening: Friday, 15. September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 15. September – Saturday, 25. November 2023
Special opening hours: Berlin Art Week 2023, Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17 September 2023, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm | Gallery Tour Charlottenwalk, Saturday, 25 November 2023, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
To the Gallery
Image caption: Marta Guisande, Ventana, 2023, Mixed media on cotton, 85 x 65 cm, photo farbanalyse köln
Exhibition Marta Guisande – Galerie kajetan Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
