Dani Marti

Dani Marti

WS-S#2

extruded polypropylene 
  
1998

This work was acquired for the collection from the exhibition WS-S# at Room 35, Gitte Weiss Gallery, Sydney in 1999. It was shown at the Auckland Art Gallery from 14 September 2002 - 9 February 2003  as part of a small survey show called Recent Contemporary Acquisitions. Artists represented included Yuk King Tan, Michael Tuffery, Dani Marti, Niki Hastings-McFall, Terry Urbahn, Rueben Patterson and Elizabeth Thomson.

Composed from textured artifical fibres, the work is a woven wall panel that also operates as a minimalist construction. While it draws on craft based traditions, it also links with new technologies- specifically the interlocking information highway and the digital world of pixels presented on a flickering screen.

Described by Victoria Hynes, the deputy editor of Australian Art Review, as being like oversized fabric swatches, the work reflects Marti's interests in weaving, fabric patterning, and drapery.

" Weaving his ropes with the dexterity and passion of a painter wielding his brush, artist Dani Marti creates sensuous textile-based works that also operate as abstract sculptural reliefs."

The artist most recently exhibited at Sherman Galleries, Sydney, in March 2004, with an exhibition titled Looking for Rover, a tribute to the Aboriginal artist Rover Thomas. For more go to Sherman Galleries.

Artist CV.

courtesy of Span Galleries, Melbourne.

Born in 1963, Barcelona- Spain.
Lives and works in Sydney

Education
2000 Master of Arts majoring in sculpture and installation, University of NSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney. Fine Arts Course, Art Students League, New York, USA

1990-1991 Diploma Fine Arts, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
1991 Fine Arts Course, Art Students League, New York, USA
1978-1979 Ramon Gomis, Studies in tapestry technique, Barcelona , Spain

Solo Exhibition
2004 Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
Looking For Rover, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2003 Variations in a Serious Black Dress, Room 35, Gitte Weiss Gallery. Sydney
Portrait of a young man returning a ladybird to the grass, Arc one at Span. Melbourne. (forthcoming)
2002 Blue angels, Galeria Alejandro Sales. Barcelona.
Mother is crying, Briefcase Project and Block. Sydney.
2001 You make me feel like love, peace and happiness, Gallery 4A. Sydney.
I am forever blowing bubbles, Room 35, Gitte Weiss Gallery. Sydney.
missing spain, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Sydney.
Enhance Systems and Orifices, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Jamón, La Capella. Barcelona.
2000 Thin Wall PB-I, Artspace.Sydney.
Coco, Rubyayre. Sydney.
Sorrry I just dropped my guts, The Lounge, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Sydney.
Looking for felix, First draft . Sydney.
1999 WS-S # Room 35 - Gitte Weiss Gallery.Sydney.
1998 Warren de Maria Gallery .Sydney.

Group Exhibitions
2003 Summer Exhibition, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne.
2003 25 years of Mardi Grass. Tin Sheds, Sydney.
2002 Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
Summer Show, Arc one at Span, Melbourne.
Opening Show, Arc one at Span, Melbourne.
Ruin, Helen Lepriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne.
Dressing and Dreaming, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
Archive of Dud Slides, Briefcase, Sydney .
2001 Artfull Park 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
1x1, Boutwell & Draper Gallery. Sydney.
Blue angels, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture award, Melbourne.
Interiors, Object Gallery. Sydney.
Plastic by nature, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Ante, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, Imperial Slacks.,Sydney.
2000 College of Fine Arts -COFA- Exhibition "Twothousand&99",Sydney.
Not quite right, Grey Matter. Sydney
To exist (24), blue funghi, Grey Matter. Sydney
1999 Preselected for the final Judging, Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship. Sydney
Three of a Kind, Gallery 19. Sydney
1998 Aula de Lletres, Barcelona . Barcelona
1997 What is love?, Toast II Gallery, Sydney.
Show fund raising for the AIDS Trust of Australia.
Love, No te nom- Gallery, Barcelona.

Bibliography
2003
Bruce James, Mardi Gras show ………, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 2003.

2002
David O’Halloran, Go inside and freshen up ( Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award), Broadsheet, vol 31 no 2 pag.22, June,July, August 2002
Leta Keens, Magic Weaver- Dani Marti, Belle Magazine, October-November Issue 2002

2001
Andrew Frost, undiscovered artists, Australian Art Collector, Issue 16, April-June 2001 . Front cover and pages 74-75
Robert Nelson, Melbourne Age, Winner shed’s pretension,(The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award), 28th March 2001, Melbourne.
Coverage of the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Sunday 8th April 2001
Arts Program, ABC Television,
Maria Bliske, ‘The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Prize’, Artlink vol 21 No2, 2001
Rees, Simon, Review Looking for felix, Art & Text, page 87, Issue 73 2001
Sasha Grishin, The Canberra Times, An ironic medium, Monday May 14,2001.
Arts Program, interview with Bruce James : I am forever blowing bubbles…, ABC Radio, Monday 11th June 2001.
The Champion- Liverpool local paper. Review on missing spain, Casula 2001, May 2001 (front page).
Victoria Hynes, Weird science, Sydney Morning Herald METRO June 22-28, 2001.
Anne Loxley, Outdoor Art, (Artfull Park) Sydney Morning Herald , December 6, 2001
Victoria Hynes, One metre x one metre, Sydney Morning Herald, METRO December 14-20,2001.

2000
Verity Newman, Not Quite Wrong, City Sydney Hub, vol5, Issue 49 2000
Courtney Kidd, METRO critic’s picks, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18-24, Dec 22-28 2000
Victoria Hynes, Lofty ambitions, Sydney Morning Herald, September 11, 2000.
Bruce James, Conservation pieces, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2000
Alexie Glass, METRO Chez View, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 17-23 2000

1999
Brian Boys, Monument, Architecture/Design, Issue October/November 1999, page 39-Exhibitions Site
Bruce James, Pope Alice overcomes strong penis challenge,
Sydney Morning Herald , March 4 1999

Publications
2002
-The Helen Lempriere national sculpture award. Catalogue. Melbourne, March 2002
-Laura Murray Cree, Awesome, art for contemporary children, Fine Art Publishing, Sydney 2002
2001
- The Helen Lempriere national sculpture award. Catalogue. Melbourne, March 2001.
- Jane Barney, Metis-Waste, Canberra Contemporary Art Space catalogue.Canberra, May 2001
- Ann Finnegan, Missing spain, Casula Power House, Catalogue essay. Casula, June 2001
2000
- Ann Finnegan, Thin Wall, Artspace catalogue. Sydney, February 2000
- Ann Finnegan, Coco, Catalogue essay. Sydney, August 2000

Grants and Award
Australian Arts Council, 1999
New Work Grant

Commissions
Woven Constructions
Dale Jones Evans - Architect OBS, work for entry foyer.-1999
Australian Landscape-yellow- 2000
Burley,Katon,Halliday Architects OBS, work for display room at the Republic-2000
Ian Halliday - Architect Linda and WS-S, for Cicada Restaurant- 2000
Murray Thomas - Architect OBS, work for his home-office-2000 obs
University of Wollongong. Lorca, 2001
Linda Gregoriou, art collector Linda Pink Scapes, (triptic. 7.5x1.3m)-2002
George Freedmand & Associa. WS-AMP, lift foyers for AMP Circular Quay-2003
BatesSmart Untitled, Melbourne Crown Casino-2003

Architect collaborations
Docklands/ Mirvac Melbourne Conceptualization and Design of wind wall installations, with Dale Jones Evans. 2002

Collections
Chartwell Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Casula Power House, Liverpool, Sydney.
Private Collections in Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and New York.

Gallery contacts
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Arc one at Span, Melbourne