Agenor Martí Fernández is a professional artist born in Havana, Cuba to writer parents. He lives and works in the states, where he holds citizenship. He started painting and traveling very early in his life.
He began his painting career at age 16 with his first solo exhibition at the renown Gallery of the French Lyceum in Montevideo, Uruguay. Since then his solo exhibitions, which number in the dozens, have taken place in such diverse places as Finland, Germany, Portugal, etc.; the most recent of these taking place in the Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery in Danzig, Poland.
In 2007, commissioned by the Lönnström Art Museum (Finland), he started the Survival Map Project, an interactive mural made between the artist and the general public which has been developed along the years, in different versions, in cities and towns of Europe and North America.
Although he is a painter by heart, Agenor has worked in many other fields related to the Fine Arts. He has illustrated magazines, books and collections of books in various publishing houses around the world. He produced animated short films for MTV. He has also had an extensive career teaching in art schools, institutes and universities in Uruguay, Finland, Norway and the United States.
Agenor is interested in achieving syntheses and that is his focus. He considers each of his paintings as a constituent element of a larger organism.
He likes exploring signs and symbols. He believes they are the circulatory system of what we call human experience.
At this point of his career, Agenor is exploring new visual languages. Especially those of maps, diagrams and flags. The goal is to successfully assimilate those respective iconographies into his painting. He thinks this exploration is of the utmost importance. Especially when it comes to the rethinking of a world that is absolutely complex. Even more importantly, by way of the imposition of the map onto the pictorial reality, the painting turns into an explanation of itself and therefore it becomes foreign to its own unicity.
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