ABOUT
MARTHA COTES
Born in Barranquilla, a city in the north coast of Colombia. Since childhood he had a penchant for art, pencil drawings prepared in 1979 won an intercollegiate contest drawing in the city of Bogotá.
In 1980 at the Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland deepened his studies of art history and to share with different cultures, it opens up a universe of like trying to cover concerns and unify the world through his painting.
To speak of Martha Cotes, you have to understand the inside strength of her spirit, her desire to conquer the chromatic world from the prespective of a tropical cultural woman without of precedence of others. Feeling her own impulsive rigth to search deep and enter inside of what we call art. Her art pieces reflect a geometric plane of color, where she clearly expresses nature with big pastures and trees with movement and dark green tones and ligths that contrast softly with rigidity and frailty in her art.
This is the original manner she expresses space and form, a characteristic renovative Modern style, synthesizing with this a personal expresion of her spirit. She is a passionate romantic, she is irreparably lost whitin color and surounded with the most radical elements of her art.
She respects and admires the pictorial creation of her contemporaries althrough in the margin of the critics of modern society she remembers with nostalgic vehemence Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Renoir and the impressionist world that makes us live.
Martha has shown us today the effect of life in her paintings, contrast with firmness, the candescent red with the broshstroke of green and blue and obliging us to accept the figure that only she can conceive, renunciating the schematic framework of perspective.
This is how we remember her art, this is how she shows her paintings, free of rigid Feelings, with pure colors with penetrating ligth she leaves us seeing the trip changing the perpetual ethereal inside your own visual interpretation.
This is the original manner she expresses space and form, a characteristic renovative Modern style, synthesizing with this a personal expresion of her spirit. She is a passionate romantic, she is irreparably lost whitin color and surounded with the most radical elements of her art.
She respects and admires the pictorial creation of her contemporaries althrough in the margin of the critics of modern society she remembers with nostalgic vehemence Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Renoir and the impressionist world that makes us live.
Martha has shown us today the effect of life in her paintings, contrast with firmness, the candescent red with the broshstroke of green and blue and obliging us to accept the figure that only she can conceive, renunciating the schematic framework of perspective.
This is how we remember her art, this is how she shows her paintings, free of rigid Feelings, with pure colors with penetrating ligth she leaves us seeing the trip changing the perpetual ethereal inside your own visual interpretation.
Bemjamin Olier
1984-1986 – Colombo - French Alliance, Cartagena, CO Studied charcoal and pastels under Jean Pierre Accault
1987-2000 – School of Fine Arts, Cartagena, CO Studied voice, theatre, photography, the art of stained glass, ceramics, charcoal and oil. Attendance was two years classroom and twelve years private tutelage under the Master Benjamin Olier.
2003 – Workshop with Camilo Calderon Six months teachings in theory and application of conceptual art.
2005 – Workshop with Joseph Hinton Numerous field trips with Harvard Professor Joseph Hinton. Open discussion of works by a variety of artists in understanding the techniques employed by the artist to transfer their vision to canvas.
2010 – Workshops MOMA and MET, NYC Sixteen weeks of group discussion led by curators and staff. Topics were of the stages in the lives of most famous artists on display in the museums and how their life’s progression was evidenced in their works.
EXHIBITIONS:
Still Gallery of Cartagena in 1999 Candelaria
School of Fine Arts Exhibition in 2001 Cartagena
Kite Gallery Show in 2004 Bogotá
Art Exhibition "Origin Colombia" Cartagena years 2004-2005
Art Show "Art Cartagena "in 2005
Gallery Hotel Santa Clara, Cartagena, year 2006
Galeria Cano, Cartagena 2007
Landucci Gallery, Mexico D.F. 2008
Consulate of Colombia in New York, 2009
Montserrat Gallery in New York Art 2009-2010
"Art Expo-2010" Retrospective of Colombia in New York
Collective "Viva Cartagena 2010" Modern Art Museum of Cartagena
Art Gallery Hotel Hilton, Cartagena 2010
Gallery "Habitat 80" Barranquilla 2011
Navy Museum, Cartagena 2012-2013
Montserrat Contemporary Art Gallery, (G) NY 2017