Dani Marti’s unique hand-woven “canvases” and video works explore wider notions of portraiture and sexuality in modernism, minimalism, and geometric abstraction. By extending the parameters of the latter, he transforms the artform into something more flamboyant and tactile allowing patterns to emerge and fluid interpretation of portraiture to form.
Marti’s relation to his subject is consistently fixed: an obsessive, laborious, and often desire-driven attempt to represent something beyond appearances; beyond the surface of the artist’s chosen canvas. Marti encourages viewer subjectivity so that the true portrait can be generated.
Dani Marti, Fragmentat i Parpellejant, (fragmented and flickering), 2023–24. Courtesy the artist and GAGPROJECTS, South Australia
GAGPROJECTS
5 April to 4 May 2024
South Australia
