Paint. The Café El Sur de Murcia hosts until tomorrow the exhibition ‘Goddesses, gods and daimones’, by Sergio Martínez
Visual artist Sergio Martínez believes that the most important paintings of ‘Goddesses, Gods and Daimones’ deserve to be viewed from afar and up close.
It’s been over a decade since the Murcian painter exhibited his works, but less than ten years go by without one of his samples, as he’s already thinking of new locations. At the moment there are still a few days left to enjoy this small exhibition at Café El Sur de Murcia. «My work is very eclectic, I usually work with abstraction and that is what can be seen at first glance in each of my paintings painted with synthetic enamels, but if you sharpen your eye you can find the pencil strokes that form figurative drawing» , explains the maker, who associates his works with pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon related to seeing unexpected objects or faces in objects and images. “The audience that approaches the work observes every detail, every line and its different interpretations, but can also see things that I have not painted, such as dragons,” explains Martínez, who “likes” that the public sees her interpretation, “in fact, they are the ones who should talk about the work and not me”, and she emphasizes that in her creations “everyone can find and explore their inner world”.
About the theme of his exhibition, the artist explains that he originated “on the fly”. More specifically, “as a result of a painting starring the demiurge, the creator.”
As a complement and common thread of the six works that make up the exhibition, the artist has also made several bookmarks with fragments of mythological texts. ‘Juno’s reflection’ is accompanied by ‘Ovid’s metamorphosis’; a fragment of ‘The Banquet’, by Plato, accompanies ‘The Erotic Dream of Vulcan’; ‘Towards Olympus’ is associated with Aeschylus’ ‘Prometheus Bound’; ‘Navigium Isidis’ is completed with the text belonging to ‘El asno y el oro’, by Lucio Apuleius; ‘Hypnos’ Nightmare’ is associated with Hesiod’s Theogony’; and ‘Demiurge’ is related to Higinio’s ‘Fables’. Texts that enrich the work of this also secondary school teacher at the IES Prado Mayor de Totana, who recognizes that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young people, “with all the incentives they have today” to connect with the visual arts.
Source: La Verdad
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