Exhibitions
Cartographies of the soul in the intimate and vibrant universe of Puri Martín
The meaning of a life unfolds at the Monjo Museum in Vilassar de Mar an expressionist journey between body, emotion and personal imagination.
The Meaning of a Life , by Puri Martín, is the new exhibition hosted by the Museu Monjo in Vilassar de Mar from March 15 to May 17, curated by Ramon Casalé Soler. More than an exhibition, it is an immersion in an intimate and dense territory, where the artist unfolds a universe populated by figures that do not belong to the visible world, but that breathe with an almost corporeal truth. They are presences that arise from a persistent imagination, forms that have sedimented over time and that become, in their reiteration and transformation, the common thread of a deeply personal story.
This set of recent works is constructed as an emotional cartography in constant mutation. Puri Martín crosses disciplines with an organic freedom - from altarpiece to engraving, from drawing to sculpture and installation -, as if each language were just a different skin of the same impulse. There are no hierarchies in the procedures, but a clear will to listen to what each idea, each intuition, asks for, in order to find its most precise form. This transversality thus becomes a space of resonances, where the works dialogue with each other and amplify their meaning.
At the root of all this development is the first gesture: drawing. The pieces on display are born from a constellation of pen sketches begun at the end of the last century, gathered in notebooks that function as true archives of thought, almost like visual diaries or artist's books. In these pages, the artist rehearses, insists, loses himself and finds himself again; he builds his own alphabet that, over time, crystallizes in work. Drawing is not a previous step here, but a space of resistance and persistence, a way of thinking with the body and the hand.
The human figure occupies a central place, but far from any mimetic will. The bodies tense, fragment, overflow; they are matter in transformation, crossed by an energy that seems never to want to settle down completely. From an intensely expressionist perspective, Puri Martín converts movement into language: each stroke, each volume, seems to contain an internal vibration, an impulse that oscillates between containment and explosion. His figures do not represent so much as they evoke; they do not describe, but rather suggest states, emotions, latent tensions.
In this sense, his work becomes a space of transit between the intimate and the universal. The characters that inhabit it, despite being unrepeatable and deeply personal, act as fragmented mirrors where the viewer can recognize something of their own. The meaning of a life does not offer answers, but opens cracks: it invites one to look, to inhabit doubt, to let oneself be affected by a poetics that beats on the limit between form and emotion.
“Since it is not very common to cultivate one of the most complex and ancient techniques at a pictorial level such as the altarpiece, for Puri Martín it is very important, since it allows him to enter a world where certain factors and processes intervene that serve him mainly to construct very unique pieces, as we can now observe in The Meaning of a Life .” Ramon Casalé Soler
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