AL’S OFFICE

MARTI CORMAND

On View: April 28 - June 3, 2022

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“During a recent visit to my mother in Spain, I noticed after a late lunch that the winter light hit the kitchen table at a low dramatic angle. Moving a single fork in different positions, I became aware of how the shape of its shadow changed - implying a multitude of forks or near-fork shapes.

Pliny the Elder declared that painting originated in tracing lines around the shadow. The origin of painting in Greek mythology depicts a woman who traced her sleeping lover’s shadow on the wall before he left on a long journey - creating an image to remember him by in his absence. Upon seeing this tracing, her father filled in the outline with clay creating a relief. I find the compulsion to fix something that is about to disappear very human. And collecting shadows is a way to archive the missing.” -MC

Born in Barcelona in 1970, Marti Cormand has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 2022. Selected exhibitions include: Twenty Twenty, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2020); They Might Be Giants, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC (2020); Un elefante en El Prado, Espacio Minimo, Madrid (2019); Formalizing their concept: After Levine, After Evans, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC (2018), Postcards to AZ, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC (2016), Formalizing their concept, Galeria Cayon and Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid (2014) and False Documents and Other Illustrations, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (2010). Public collections include: Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Dallas Musuem of Art (Dallas), Espacio Artkunstarte (Madrid), Fundacio La Caixa (Barcelona), Progressive Corporation (Mayfield Village, OH), Caja Madrid (Madrid), Cartin Collection (Hartford, CT), and Fundacio Vila Casas (Barcelona). Marti is represented by Bienvenu Sternberg & Partner Gallery (NYC) and Espacio Minimo (Madrid).