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Jorge Martínez García

Overview

Chile
1963

Craig Scott Gallery represents in North America the work of Chilean neo-Baroque printmaker and painter, Jorge Martínez García. Schooled as an artist in Ecuador in the period from 1985 to 1991, Martínez works from his home city of Valparaiso, Chile, where he is also Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

Prior to his return to Chile and taking up teaching in the fine arts, Martínez received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in Ecuador at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ecuador in Quito and went on to become an adjunct professor of modern philosophy, the philosophy of aesthetics and the philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Theology of that university for a period.

Since 1989, Martínez has had over 19 individual exhibitions in Chile, Ecuador, Germany and Argentina, as well as being part of over 40 group shows around the world and numerous biennales and international cultural shows. He has received several prizes in Chile and Ecuador. His works are held by museums and major public collections in many countries, including Japan, Switzerland, England, the USA, Cuba and France, as well in numerous private collections.

From April 7 to 26, 2006, Craig Scott Gallery exhibited a mini-retrospective of Martínez prints across a wide range of techniques. Entitled Poesy , the exhibition focused on a series of eleven readings by Martínez of the work of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy as well as on five works recently acquired (May 2005) by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France). The show also introduced the North American art world to Martínez as a major painter.

For Jorge Martínez García's September/October 2007 exhibition at Craig Scott Gallery, "Under the Volcano and Other Works: Interpreting the Writings of Malcolm Lowry," click here .

The year 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of Malcolm Lowry's birth in Liverpool, England. Major scholarly and artistic events have been organized around this centenary. One of them was a mega-conference at the University of British Columbia (in collaboration with Vancouver Island University) in July, at which a slide show of all of Martínez' prints from the Lowry/Under the Volcano series were projected as part of the opening of the conference. Following the UBC Conference was a multi-disciplinary extravaganza at a public arts centre called the Bluecoat, in Liverpool (The European Union's City of Culture for 2008). The "Malcolm Lowry Centenary at the Bluecoat" exhibition ran from September 25 to November 22. Craig Scott Gallery worked with the Bluecoat to provide eight Martínez works for the exhibition. Liverpool University Press published a hardcover book to coincide with the exhibition: Bryan Biggs and Helen Tookey, eds., Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2009) pp 138-141 (images of Under the Volcano, Wheel - Law - Machine - System, Mezcal Spirits, and Triptych: Mezcal / Triptych: The Commisaries / Triptych: The Volcano; p. 158 (Note on Contributor).