DiVA Fair 2005 Cologne

Born in Montevideo in 1976, he's based in Madrid, Spain.

Martin Sastre is a young Uruguay artist. In his video, he conjugate pop and political discourse, making his works a unique exercise of social criticism in tune with hits we can all sing to.

The globalize World from the perspective of a Latin American artist - and specially a Uruguayan one- trying to be an active part of the competitive World of International Art is - in the vision of this artist is a World plagued of irony, humor and paradoxes.

BOLIVIA 3: Confederation Next, 2004
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About the Gallery :

THE GALLERY’S PROGRAM consists of three main branches : abstract painting from the 80s onwards, plastic photography embracing the notion of staging, and installation in sculpture and video.

In the field of photography, the gallery decided to present practices which are certainly linked but all nevertheless remain individual. It represents artists who play with the concept of staging, such as Florence Chevallier (France), Paul Pouvreau (France), Karen Knorr (USA-England) or Gilbert Garcin (France) or with the very notion of photographic writing according to a very personal style, such as Catherine Poncin (France) and Corinne Mercadier (France). Others concentrate on more realist constructions, Paola De Pietri (Italy), Thibaut Cuisset (France), Gilbert Fastenaekens (Belgium), Paul Graham (England) for example, but always in aid of a singular script. Others besides extend beyond the photographic field to installation and video, such as Mireille Loup (France), Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium).

In painting, the gallery represents artists with a minimal tendency, like Olivier Mosset (Switzerland-USA) as well as painters with an expression more anchored in a pictorial gestuality such as Dominique Gauthier (France) or Edouard Prulhière (France). It is not about promoting a type of language but rather an attempt to cover a field of contemporary creation which exposes the expansion of painting’s territory and notably the language of abstraction. Also represented are painters who leave the field of painting behind to move towards space or volume, such as James Hyde (USA), Renée Levi (Switzerland) or Emmanuelle Villard (France/Belgium).

Finally, the gallery also supports young artists by offering them the opportunity for their first exhibition and catalogue, as was done for the sculptor-installor François Daireaux (France) and the Columbian video-maker Adriana Arenas.

This year, the gallery enters new artists to consolidate its video base with the young and promising Martin Sastre (Uruguay) & Ingrid Mwangi (Kenya/Germany), and its photo section with Paul Graham (UK). The gallery will also open its program to drawing by giving her first show in France and Belgium to Anja Schrey (Germany).