Natalia González Martín

Natalia González Martín

BornNationalityBased In
1995N/ALondon
Biography

Borrowing the formal qualities of icon painting, Natalia Gonzalez Martin’s work explores the inscriptions of a cultural heritage on one’s physical body and moral codes. Placed in a bucolic setting, the figures represented are often adorned with detailed elements as delicate as fabrics, ripe tempting fruits and crawling insects. They are filled with historic symbolism, allowing us to pay attention to the traditions, gestures and habits we have inherited. Natalia’s work merges the characters from old fables with the constant supply of images we are subjected to daily aiming to blur the boundaries between divine, secular and earth in order to gesture towards other ways of desiring, feeling or being in the world, attuned to these paradoxes. Fragmentation suggests anteriority, decay and loss in relation to some superseded whole. As an antidote to this, the German tradition of Weltlandschaft painting (World’s Landscape), offers an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint where everything is depicted with hallucinatory detail, allowing the artist to compress the totality of the world in a painting. Natalia creates a synthesis of both these ideas; a totality in the fragment, permitting the viewer to project their own experiences onto these universal gestures. ...

Selected Artworks
Penitence
Flowers Blossomed Under Her Dress
Natalia González Martín
Flowers Blossomed Under Her Dress, 2020
30 x 21cm
Cherries and Lies
Natalia González Martín
Cherries and Lies, 2021
21 x 14cm
Land of Olive
The Veil is Removed
Natalia González Martín
The Veil is Removed, 2021
42 x 29.7cm
Reclining Nude at Night
Natalia González Martín
Reclining Nude at Night, 2021
60 x 42cm
Take All That's Left of My Peach
Natalia González Martín
Take All That's Left of My Peach, 2021
60 x 42cm
Immaculate
Three Bites
Tragicomedy in Two Parts: The Sun
Natalia González Martín
Tragicomedy in Two Parts: The Sun, 2022
91 x 61cm
Desencadenados
Nurture (I am not even hungry)
Natalia González Martín
Nurture (I am not even hungry), 2022
18 x 12.5 x 2cm
Sensitive layer
Natalia González Martín
Sensitive layer, 2023
25 x 20 x 2cm
Cleansed, but only for today
Natalia González Martín
Cleansed, but only for today, 2023
17 x 12.5 x 2cm
Hadn't there been flowers
Natalia González Martín
Hadn't there been flowers, 2023
61 x 91 x 5cm
Red to the touch
Natalia González Martín
Red to the touch, 2023
17.5 x 12.5 x 2cm
Gallery Representation
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