Enrique Marty

The work of Enrique Marty (Salamanca, 1969) has always blended different media—sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and animation—to compose striking stage designs with which he seeks an almost encyclopedic exploration of so-called everyday life, which for him is nothing more than a human comedy replete with dark passages. To this end, he tirelessly records personal experiences and the everyday life of others in which he doesn't interpret, but simply reproduces, confronting the viewer with the uncanny, with those situations in which the familiar seems disturbingly strange. Enrique Marty states that he aims to shock and unsettle the viewer and confront them with characters and scenes that have lost their reassuring everyday aspect to move into the theatrical terrain of the grotesque and satire. Hence, absurdity, tension, and hidden anguish emerge in his work, destabilizing conventional reality. His personal perspective was fully demonstrated in "The Family," his 2000 exhibition at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. Following this, Harald Szeemann selected him for "The Real Royal Trip," which was shown at PS1 in New York and the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid. The disturbing “Flaschengeist” at the MUSAC in León in 2006 was his next milestone, since which he has shown his works in some of the most important museums and biennials in Europe, Latin America and Asia, such as the Venice Biennale (in 2001 and 2005), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Querétaro (2005), GEM Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008, Kunsthalle Mannheim in 2010, Palazzo Sant'Elia in Palermo, ZKM in Karlsruhe or the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid and DA2 in Salamanca, both in 2014. Also in galleries such as Casa Triangulo, Espacio Mínimo, Luis Adelantado, Enrique Guerrero, La Gran, Deweer or Keteleer.