BIOAlicia Martín nace en la isla de La Palma, Islas Canarias en 1974 y desde muy joven comienza a investigar con la pintura, realizando su primera exposición a los 15 años, dibujos sobre papel.
A partir de aquí comienza la aventura de pintar, de una niña que se convierte en mujer pintando y reconociendo el mundo. En 1997 ingresa en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Laguna (Tenerife - Islas Canarias) dónde comienza su andadura académica hasta 2001. Desde su primera exposición, continúa pintando y exponiendo en diversas salas de arte y galerías de la Isla de la Palma, Tenerife y Barcelona. Actualmente reside en la Isla de Tenerife donde trabaja en sus nuevos proyectos. La pintura de Alicia Martín recorre un mundo simbólico que habla de la existencia humana, sus autorretratos nos recuerdan a las Venus del Paleolítico, llenas de vida y anunciando la fertilidad. En sus obras emergen objetos como escaleras, casas, flores, conchas, etc, que nos hablan de la condición humana. Una escalera de la vida donde todo tiene un principio y un fin, cuerpos que bailan solos, o rodeados de objetas, flores, casas... qué danzan al unísono. Para ella la pintura es ineludiblemente una forma de vivir, de existir, de adquirir el propio reconocimiento personal, de localizar entre la multitud la identidad, su identidad. La pintura, como se sabe, se apropia de los materiales terrestres para expresar nuestra idea de la belleza, nuestra visión del mundo, para contar historias... Para Alicia Martín pintar también es un juego, dónde se encuentran trazos, donde se experimenta con el color, la luz... un juego que nos habla también nuestra existencia. Elementos que nos hablan de un mundo efímero, de nuestra soledad envuelta en un velo de erotismo. El sexo, el amor forman parte de la vida, amamos cuando estamos vivos, es una burla a la muerte. La muerte, forma parte de nuestra vida, de nuestra existencia aunque la sociedad quiera maquillarla, apartarla, enmascararla, sigue ahí, como la vida, danzando al unísono. Alicia se influye de pintores en los que en alguna medida conforman su obra, Marlene Dumas, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Giacometti o Francesco Clemente entre otros artistas. |
Alicia Martín was born in 1974 on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands. She began experimenting with painting techniques at a very young age, in fact she performed her first exhibition at the early age of 15. From this moment on the challenge of understanding and interpreting reality began for her and it seemed to never ceased. She even sold her first works as a adolescent where we can see that as an artist she made her first attempts experimenting with painting using a still rough and not even polished technique. She sold her first works when she was fifteen years old. Later on, in 1997 she joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at La Laguna University in Tenerife, Canary Islands. There she began her academic career until 2001 when she graduated. Ever since her first exhibition, she has been painting and exhibiting in several art galleries in La Palma, Tenerife and Barcelona. Now she lives in Tenerife, where she is working on her new projects. Alicia Martin’s paintings remind us of a symbolic world that speaks of human existence, her self-portraits go back to those images of Venus found in the Paleolithic Era. Those female forms announce forms full of life and fertility. We can find in her works objects such as ladders, houses, flowers, shells and so on that tell us about the human condition, a life chain where everything has a beginning and an end, bodies that dance alone, or surrounded by objects, flowers, houses... that dance in unison. For her, painting is an unavoidable way of living, existing, and acquiring our own personal recognition, a way of setting our own individual identity among that of the crowd. For her the artist should use earthly raw materials to express our idea of beauty so as to tell different stories of reality and thus convey a specific vision of the world. For Alicia Martin painting also is a game where the artist`s hand strokes and lines join and where the artist experiments with colour and light... a game that also tells us a story about our existence where elements that speak of an ephemeral world come together. According to Alicia our sense of loneliness is wrapped up in a veil of eroticism. For her, sex and love are part of life, we love every time we live and painting involves a mockery of death. Death is part of life, a piece of our living existence and no matter how hard society attempts to fade it out it still pervades and remains dancing in perfect unison with life. Alicia has been influenced by painters such as Jenny Saville, Alyssa Monks, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Francesco Clemente, Dokoupil, Marlene Dumas, Frida Khalo.