About the artist
Arturo Marty's painting is a platform for the illusionist's confessional obsession, but also a spectacular set for the unlimited exercise of seduction. If in the beginning Marty barely suggested the scenographic nature of the prospective painting, in this second stage there is a deliberate use of the image as a site of theatrical representation. The scene is a circus arena, a dreamlike matrix, a fantastic uterus. The entire extension of the dream is a landscape where the seductive-evocative power of the illusionist reigns. As in any act of illusion -and seduction-, the action does not concentrate on the actor's trick but on the effect on the spectator.
There is always that timid but tenacious deference to the public in Marty. The very insistence on placing the anecdote, not in the pictorial convention but in the theatrical one, underlines the importance of an essential element to the representation such as the curtain. Apart from the coincidences that may exist with the theatrical profession exercised at one time by Marty as an actor, we must understand how the curtain, constant in his later plastic work, is the object that relates the real with the fantasy, the intimate production with its consumption. public, seduction with the exhibition, the artist with the public, the trick with the risk.
- Osvaldo Sánchez
Arturo Marty was born in the city of Monterrey, N.L., Mexico in 1949.
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STUDIES:
She studies Communications at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. She attended the School of Fine Arts at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León for a period.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
1984
FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1986
Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
1987
Mexican Art Gallery, Mexico City
1988
OILS AND PASTELS. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1993
BETWEEN THE MIRROR AND THE DREAM 1982-1993. (Retrospective). Monterrey Museum, Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
1994
IN THE NAME OF THE SON. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1995
WORK OF THE MONTH. University of Monterrey. Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
1996
OF VICES AND VIRTUES. Gallery of Contemporary Mexican Art. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1998
Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
1999
THE ACROBATS. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2000
THE NEXT IMAGE. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2007
FROM THERE… Mexican Contemporary Art Gallery. Monterrey, NL, Mexico.
2009
INTERSTICIOS. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1985
CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN PAINTERS. Morning Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
MEXICO: THE NEW GENERATION. The San Antonio Museum Association. San Antonio, TX.
THE PORTRAIT. OMR Gallery. Mexico City
1987
VII NATIONAL MEETING OF YOUNG ART, National Institute of Fine Arts, Aguascalientes, Ags.
House of Culture of Monterrey, Monterrey, NL
1988
City Theater, Monterrey, NL
1990
POPULAR CULTURAL AND IMAGINARY. Parallel Project Gallery, New York. NY.
ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN PAINTINGS. Americas Society Art Gallery. New York, NY.
1991
MYTH AND MAGIC IN AMERICA: THE 1980S. Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, NL
ANCIENT DREAMS MODERN MYTHS. Parallel Project Gallery, Sta. Monica, California.
FOUR ROYAL VISIONS. San Pedro Cultural Directorate, Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, Garza García, NL
1992
MEXICO WORKS. Marta Gutierrez Fine Arts. Miami, FL.
1492 (auction). Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art. Monterrey, NL
1993
BESTIARY (auction). Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art. Monterrey, NL
1994
COLORS UNDER THE SUN. (Painters and Sculptors of Nuevo León). Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City
SELF-PORTRAIT (COMPULSIVELY ME). University of Monterrey, Monterrey, NL
State Institute of Culture, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
1995
MARCO AWARD. Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico.
OF DESIRE AND MEMORY. A plural vision of 21 contemporary Mexican artists. Amparo Museum Center, Puebla, Puebla.
1997
INTENSE. Rahn Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
2000
Inaugural Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Monterrey, NL
2001
Cardinal proposals as a prelude to the 21st century. Amparo Museum Center, Puebla, Puebla.
2002
ART CHICAGO. International Art Fair. Chicago Illinois.
DEATH WITHOUT ENDLESS. (OF MY STUBBORN DEATH). Home of Mercy, Garza García, NL
2004
STILL LIFE. 13th Donation Exhibition of the Home of Mercy, Garza García, NL
2005
Mexican Art Gallery. Mexico City
LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE. House of Mercy, Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey, Mexico.
2008
Mexican Toys. Home of Mercy Exhibition. Garza García, Nuevo León
FOUR SEASONS. Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery. Garza García, NL