In his practice, Martins engages with a distinctive set of materials, techniques and subjects that reveal the dynamic tension between civilization and nature. Out of old, reclaimed wooden planks, which still preserve the memory of wild forest and the warmth of a dwelling, he assembles striking and enigmatic zoomorphic sculptures. Using acrylic and graphite pencil, he creates concise monochromatic compositions, wherein the traces of anthropocentric landscape dissolve into the “snowy” whiteness of unfilled background.
Martins considers all of his works in different media, including the ones produced for public spaces, as inherently connected parts of a single social and aesthetic project – a meditation on ecologic cataclysms, the ambivalent status of a human being in the system of organic life, regional identity and the unifying potential of art.
EDUCATION
The Free Workshops Contemporary Art School of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Faculty of Painting of the Krasnoyarsk Art School
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Tretyakov Gallery
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2017 The winner of the annual Ruinart Art Patronat Award Contest in the field of contemporary art
2017 Archstoyanie’s grant for the the implementation of the project Being Together, Russia
2015 Kandinsky award. Nominee Young Artist
FESTIVALS AND BIENNALE
2018 Contemporary art festival Territory.Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2017 The Main project of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 12th international festival of landscape objects Archstoyanie, Nikola-Lenivets, Russia
2015 The practice of touch, 11 Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2014 Biennale of science art, Novosibirsk, Russia
2013 Love of space, 10 Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2013 May!, Festival of Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia
2012 Liquid Life. The special project of 3th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2012 Arhvarene, Architectural Festival, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Sunspots, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Heat Forms, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Mental Firewood, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 Garden Should Grow Up, Otdel Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2015 Mental Firewood, Otdel Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2010 Space Combat, Secach Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 Rejected Reality, ARTPLAY, Moscow, Russia
2012 Time to Change, Secach Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 Art-Session 2012, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 In Depth, 9th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 Art-Session 2011, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 First on Mars, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ural, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2011 Art From the Machine, Nazarovo, Russia
2011 World Of Siberia, Shushenskoye, Russia
2010 I am Responsible for His Father, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2010 Art Search, Yakut Biennale of Young Art, Yakutsk, Russia
2010 Red Carpet, Video Festival of Kansk, Kansk, Russia
2010 The Beginning of the Way, Mix-Max, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2010 17. Seriosly, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 The 12th Time Zone. A contemporary Art Report from Russia, Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Big Country – Big Ideas, mobile exhibition on cities of Russia
2018 The Work of the Future – art in Nikola-Lenivets, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Tragedy in the Corner, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2017 Recycling Landscape, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 Artbat FEST, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2014 The Town Where You Can, KRYAKK 2014, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 New Conditions, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia