Es como un animal enorme dormido profundamente. David Martínez Suárez
With every breath it moves walls and walls and we eat as if at a candlelit picnic. It is the first time we go into all that is there, far away, and treat it as one would treat anything poisonous, vicious and meaningless. The light glows golden, like a wasp hovering over a red surface and finally burnt to a grey ash. There is a figure that calls to us with a silent emotion, whose face, as it expands, takes on a resemblance to many other and very different faces.
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David Martínez Suárez (La Hueria, Asturias, 1984) has carried out projects such as ‘Mente Salvaje’, with a grant from the BBVA Foundation; ‘Azar y Proceso’, at the Barjola Museum in Gijón; and ‘Inercia’, at the Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón. Together with the artists Lorea Alfaro, Manu Uranga and Jon Otamendi, he founded the initiative MLDJ in a space in Bilbao. From 2007 to 2010 he collaborated in the research and publication of the Catalogue raisonné of the sculpture of Jorge Oteiza.
He has exhibited individually or collectively in spaces such as the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Artium Museoa (Vitoria), ATM Galería (Gijón), Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Gallery (Madrid), Carreras Múgica Gallery (Bilbao) and Galerie Lisi Hämmerle (Bregenz), among others. His work has been exhibited at fairs such as ARCO, JustMad and ARTbo. He has held residencies at various institutions such as Tabakalera (Donostia-San Sebastián), l’Estruch (Sabadell), the Bilbaoarte Foundation and the Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria).
In collaboration with ATM Galería and with special thanks to Cristina Ramos.
Text and image by David Martínez Suárez.
