MARTIN BLANCO

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974

Martin is an internationally exhibited and awarded Digital and Traditional Artist living in the Principality of Andorra, Europe with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts.
Experimenting with different techniques and boundaries, Martin has created his own style of creative narrative through Digital Art by mixing photographic manipulation and digital painting. In addition to his digital work, Martin is also dedicated to traditional art, creating detailed graphite drawings and oil paintings that explore both classical and contemporary themes. His mastery of these mediums allows him to express a wide range of ideas, from precise realism to imaginative interpretations, further enriching his artistic practice.

He has won 30 international awards, of which 10 are first prizes in several Drawing and Digital Art contests worldwide, including the award of "Best Comic Book" in the New York Horror Film Festival 2007.

His work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions in Argentina, Spain and Andorra and he has participated in more than 50 group and juried exhibitions, including multimedia events in New York (Guggenheim Museum, MoMA Museum), Paris (Louvre Museum), London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Warsov, Florence, Dublin, among others.

Artist Statement

I understand art as a way of direct, pure communication. I have been exploring human nature and its weaknesses in the world we live in since 2008. Fears, anguish, anxieties, and everything that conditions us as the mortal beings we are.
I am concerned with how societies relate to technology and how this technology establishes different levels of communication. My work is essentially surrealistic, as a result of my study of Salvador Dalí’s work. In my compositions, the characters are usually surrounded by dense and uncomfortable environments, in which contrasts of light and shadow as well as chromatic contrasts predominate, the former and the latter as a result of the huge influence of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s and Caravaggio’s creations on my work.
My expression has to be faithfully and accurately conveyed; that is my main goal when I create. That is why I am not particularly concerned with the representation of beauty in itself unless it is part of a specific meaning.