My
work tells about apparent balances: each image becomes a space
suspended in time in front of which to dwell, to find one's own inner
calm or to recognize its fragility.
The
surface is interrupted by matter that breaks in with its
three-dimensionality. The movement that generates refers to embryonic
cellular forms in development, something uncontrolled and
uncontrollable that finds a point of fracture to break without
control. The image represented freezes this impulse at the instant in
which it happens leaving the viewer suspended in the uncertainty of
its evolution. It is an oxymoron of quiet and tension that coexist in
the same place.
The
research of materials refers to bodily and terrestrial scenarios
where nature is overwhelmed by artifice and vice versa.
The
inanimate matter becomes 'living matter' and contains in itself
potential infinite metamorphoses. Each image is the externalization
of intimate suggestions told with a polymaterial language.
MARTINA
FONTANA (1984) lives and works in Prato.
She
graduated in 2007 at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence in
restoration and conservation of goldsmithing and metals.
She
has worked for many years in the restoration field collaborating with
important museum institutions in Italy. From 2008 to 2015 she
has collaborated with several architectural firms to design and
manufacture interior decorations. She has partecipated in the
creation of stage settings for theater contexts and events. Since
2014 she has been collaborating with Dynamo Camp Onlus association,
where she coordinates a contemporary art project, supporting guest
artists in the planning of workshops for kids and in the creation of
artworks.
EXHIBITIONS
03
August – 01 September 2018 “IDEA FORMA MATERIA”
Made
in...Art Gallery
Venice, ITALY
November
17/2018 – February 28/2019
“DUBAI MEETS THE WORLD”
Aisha
Alabbar Art Gallery (www.aishaalabbarartagallery.com)
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
08-10/03/2019
“BALANCE
FOR BETTER” Arts Connects Women
curated
by Zaahirah Muthy Intenational Women Art Exhibition
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
14/09-20/10/19
“VIVA!
Abstracta Vitae"
curated
by Claudio Giorgetti
Sale
affrescate di Palazzo Comunale
Pistoia, ITALY
