Germán Cardoso Martinez

Germán Cardoso Martinez
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

STATEMENT

Everything begins with a personal quest to visually depict hopes, dreams, and concerns that are somewhat remote from time and everyday experiences. This representation then finds its way into paintings, sketches, and collage animations.

I would characterize the language I utilize for my representations as a hybrid of Dadaism and Surrealism. The pieces serve as the faces of a prism that reflects on the traces that experiences and time leave on these memories and modifies them, even though there isn’t any obvious narrative thread connecting them.

Mixed media and collage are my main tools. Reinstalling cut-out fragments of photographs, newspapers, and textures that once conveyed a message in a different context gives the piece an intriguing depth, almost like a second birth.

I create digital, analog, and animated collage illustrations in my current work.

BIO

Germán was born in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied architecture at University and has been in the graphic design field for more than 20 years. Having worked in the industrial sector, Martinez has committed the last years of his job to the simultaneous development of his artistic endeavors.

He has taken part in a few solo and group art exhibitions, and his artwork has been featured in several contemporary art magazines.

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