Nicola
Martini

My name is Nicola Martini and I am a self-taught artist. I make paintings and sculptureswith a particular and innovative collage technique, using various types of paper andcardboard, managing with this method to give the work a very visual effectimpacting and engaging for the observer.My work studies and explores the harmonies of bodies and colors that arethey mix, intertwine and merge into phantasmagoric and kaleidoscopic figures.I try to question myself every time I approach a job about which story it shouldtell the subject, what identity I want to give, what feelings it must convey,what characteristics and what peculiarities it must have. Each project is the storyfragmented of a dream, of a thought, of memories that are recomposed. Imagesdifferent and incongruous fit into each other and induce the viewer tocontinuous mental short circuits. The subjects of my paintings and sculptures aremainly female figures and enclose a great celebration of thewoman. I want people to find inspiration in my paintings, to find thetime to stop and be amazed.When I compose my paintings I always think about life. I believe the opposite of thedeath is not life but love. We live as if we were never to die therewe feel invincible, we act and suffer over time by pretending not to know that theour existence will slowly fade into absolute nothingness. Love is the only wayto cheat death. The love we imprint on the world leaves a trace thatit transcends space and time, perhaps the closest thing to a soul. Who loves, knows ofhaving made sense of everything, whoever loves madly now, has already screwed up death.