The whole humanity fighting against an ideal humanity. Face to face, body to body, talking with strange images of a time without end, which could be tomorrow, next week or in twenty centuries, but it will be.
Reality and imagination have the same meaning in the work of this author. Two forces that find each other, they fight and then come together. They appear after an explotion. A group of living shapes and symbols, sometimes violent, others mysteriously beautiful fill the space.
Death frees man from suffering. This doesn´t happen when man stays alive with his body and soul wounded. This, that is shown by postwar period artists in Europe, we find it in this Argentine artist. A Latin American humanist.
Cosmic horrors, spiritual artist. The biggest force, a shaking force, which you find in the creation.
A logic view would guide us to a dark and gloomy nihilist, but it´s really a call of attention.
Surrealism, neofiguration and expressionism, all define the images as a controlled automatism, due to plastic knowledge and image effectiveness. But not Martino´s effectivity, which he knows very well and doesn´t confuse with necessities.
His works are dramatic but aren´t melodramas nor show over sentimentality, which would shudder spectators, although, at the end, he gets to it, surely with no intention.
His shapes question us, we take off our mask, we undress. Miguel Martino seems to be mild and gentle, but carries an innermost volcano.
He breaks structures, but his shapes however show excellence.
Human condition is a constant in his works, becoming an important contribution to Salvadoran fine arts in the last years.
It´s startling to watch thoroughly a tree. It´s difficult to imagine that after its fall it can show us so much beauty in an artist´s hands.
The artist Miguel Martino, changes his mind as he attempts wood. In Un Comienzo we imagine a mythological creature or perhaps real, which tries to come into the world with a shout of pain.
We can assure that the message of his works is beyond conscience.
A hand coming to the surface from nothingness in Tiempo de desarraigo. In Pensamiento Lúdico a thought rising indubitable to infinite, the time, the sea, the search and the meeting. The artist seems to straighten up as a God, bringing the wood, something so important for man, back to life.
No doubt we find his own desire of power comes true in his works, no one´s else. It´s the only way we can imagine this art miracle, full of senses, symbolically and concretely, by the artist Miguel Martino.
No sharp corners, only curves and additions which instinctively send us to the eternal binomial of life, the essential and the complementaries, masculine and feminine, yin and yang, hollowness and fullness, dynamism and quietness.
If we study Fuente de Energía, we will find that the position of the pieces of wood accompany the circular movement of a tornado. Undoubtly it´s a real matrix.
The most exquisite erotism of his works reveal the biggest man´s mystery: his deep intimacy. In very few occasions we can admire works that show such harmony and coherence. This only happens when the artist gives his best to others… with love.
Miguel Martino is an ample and effective maker. Ample because his artistic ambition is totally based in his expressive diversity. Effective because an uncontainable imagination, a profound knowledge of technique and a transforming disciplined exercise near wisdom, forces that diversity.
With responsability I say that Miguel Martino is a wise man of the shapes and a demiurge of the structure. He shows creative conscience where others show just conjecture.
Miguel Martino emphasizes in his work the man that learned to inquire. He becomes more a philosopher than a dogmatic man and infinitely more adventurer than a sedentary purist.
With lovers wisdom and the astonishment of these who have just arrived, the artist that raises over his head the stollen fire, shouting for his world fraction, he deserves to be heard by the Gods, wherever they are. I´m sure Miguel Martino has been listened.
We can also feel his love for nature. Every piece of wood he uses, which is simply picked up, never cut down, and carefully selected is dead until the will and the ispiration of the artist, which are divine gifts, give them shape. Until the chisels start scratching its structure. Miguel Martino has this natural ability. He´s a privileged man.
First of all we enjoy Miguel Martino´s artworks. They show us that real art is to surch and find out our real human essence. They transmit his energy and his love for beauty and perfectness in both ways, spiritual and shape.
(Jorge Ramírez Prado)
Reality and imagination have the same meaning in the work of this author. Two forces that find each other, they fight and then come together. They appear after an explotion. A group of living shapes and symbols, sometimes violent, others mysteriously beautiful fill the space.
(Nuria Armengol)
Death frees man from suffering. This doesn´t happen when man stays alive with his body and soul wounded. This, that is shown by postwar period artists in Europe, we find it in this Argentine artist. A Latin American humanist.
(Octavio Bajonero)
Cosmic horrors, spiritual artist. The biggest force, a shaking force, which you find in the creation.
(Josué Iturbe)
A logic view would guide us to a dark and gloomy nihilist, but it´s really a call of attention.
(Josué Iturbe)
Surrealism, neofiguration and expressionism, all define the images as a controlled automatism, due to plastic knowledge and image effectiveness. But not Martino´s effectivity, which he knows very well and doesn´t confuse with necessities.
(José Iturbe)
His works are dramatic but aren´t melodramas nor show over sentimentality, which would shudder spectators, although, at the end, he gets to it, surely with no intention.
(José Iturbe)
His shapes question us, we take off our mask, we undress. Miguel Martino seems to be mild and gentle, but carries an innermost volcano.
(Mario Noel Rodriguez)
He breaks structures, but his shapes however show excellence.
(Mario Noel Rodriguez)
Human condition is a constant in his works, becoming an important contribution to Salvadoran fine arts in the last years.
(Mario Noel Rodriguez)
It´s startling to watch thoroughly a tree. It´s difficult to imagine that after its fall it can show us so much beauty in an artist´s hands.
(Lidia Balkenende)
The artist Miguel Martino, changes his mind as he attempts wood. In Un Comienzo we imagine a mythological creature or perhaps real, which tries to come into the world with a shout of pain.
(Lidia Balkenende)
We can assure that the message of his works is beyond conscience.
(Lidia Balkenende)
A hand coming to the surface from nothingness in Tiempo de desarraigo. In Pensamiento Lúdico a thought rising indubitable to infinite, the time, the sea, the search and the meeting. The artist seems to straighten up as a God, bringing the wood, something so important for man, back to life.
(Lidia Balkenende)
No doubt we find his own desire of power comes true in his works, no one´s else. It´s the only way we can imagine this art miracle, full of senses, symbolically and concretely, by the artist Miguel Martino.
(Janine Janowsky)
No sharp corners, only curves and additions which instinctively send us to the eternal binomial of life, the essential and the complementaries, masculine and feminine, yin and yang, hollowness and fullness, dynamism and quietness.
(Janine Janowsky)
If we study Fuente de Energía, we will find that the position of the pieces of wood accompany the circular movement of a tornado. Undoubtly it´s a real matrix.
(Janine Janowsky)
The most exquisite erotism of his works reveal the biggest man´s mystery: his deep intimacy. In very few occasions we can admire works that show such harmony and coherence. This only happens when the artist gives his best to others… with love.
(Janine Janowsky)
Miguel Martino is an ample and effective maker. Ample because his artistic ambition is totally based in his expressive diversity. Effective because an uncontainable imagination, a profound knowledge of technique and a transforming disciplined exercise near wisdom, forces that diversity.
(Federico Hernandez Aguilar)
With responsability I say that Miguel Martino is a wise man of the shapes and a demiurge of the structure. He shows creative conscience where others show just conjecture.
(Federico Hernández Aguilar)
Miguel Martino emphasizes in his work the man that learned to inquire. He becomes more a philosopher than a dogmatic man and infinitely more adventurer than a sedentary purist.
(Federico Hernandez Aguilar)
With lovers wisdom and the astonishment of these who have just arrived, the artist that raises over his head the stollen fire, shouting for his world fraction, he deserves to be heard by the Gods, wherever they are. I´m sure Miguel Martino has been listened.
(Federico Hernandez Aguilar)
We can also feel his love for nature. Every piece of wood he uses, which is simply picked up, never cut down, and carefully selected is dead until the will and the ispiration of the artist, which are divine gifts, give them shape. Until the chisels start scratching its structure. Miguel Martino has this natural ability. He´s a privileged man.
(Diana Valiente)
First of all we enjoy Miguel Martino´s artworks. They show us that real art is to surch and find out our real human essence. They transmit his energy and his love for beauty and perfectness in both ways, spiritual and shape.
(Diana Valiente)