JOSE CARLOS MARTINAT
Gol
Extraction of wall
160 x 170 cm
2017

Jose Carlos Martinat M. (Lima-Peru). His work has taken part in several exhibitions in Latin America, Europe and USA such as: Eva + A Nordic Biennial Biennial, Mercosur Biennial, Puerto Rico Polygraphic Triennial, Biennial Nord Holland with
Marljolijn Dijkman, Shanghai Biennial (China), Biennial of Havana, Saatchi gallery (London) Carrillo Gil from Mexico, Tate modern (London) Marco museum Vigo (Spain), IFA (Germany), La Laboral (Spain), Mali (Lima), Pinacoteca (Sao Paulo, Tate ( London), WWVF (Holland), among others, is represented by Revolver gallery in Lima and Buenos Aires and Leme gallery in Sao Paulo.
His work is part of collections such as: Museum of Modern Art, NY; TATE Modern, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Museum of Art of Lima (MALI) and Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

During the last decade, the works of José Carlos Martinat have made appropriation their indelible mark. Unlike the artistic trend of the 1980s that is concerned with issues relating to originality in the arts, Martinat's approach to appropriation involves the removal of elements from the streets -peeling-off political pints, the compilation of plaster casts
of the foundries where heroes of the 19th century were cast in bronze, or take molds from the surfaces of equestrian figures with aluminum foil
that is then re-contextualized in order to comment on the different uses of public space and stories policies of certain places.