Marta Buenaventura │ Visual artist and architect
“The artist predominantly uses acrylic on wood, choosing red as the central element in many of her compositions. This chromatic and material choice is not arbitrary; she seeks to generate a “plastic reverberation” that resonates with the viewer, provoking an intense emotional and sensory response.”
Saatchi Art
Online art gallery based in Los Angeles, California
“Marta Buenaventura’s work stands as a profound exploration of transformation and constant evolution. Her trajectory, which transits from initial figuration to mature abstraction, reflects a tireless search for metamorphosis both in art and in life itself. This evolution is palpable in her inclination to represent processes of change and rebirth, where each piece acts as a testimony of art’s capacity to reflect the multiple facets of human existence.”
Mariano Azores
Art critic, journalist and member of the Madrid Association of Art Critics
“Marta Buenaventura’s work stands as a profound exploration of transformation and constant evolution. Her trajectory, which transits from initial figuration to mature abstraction, reflects a tireless search for metamorphosis both in art and in life itself. This evolution is palpable in her inclination to represent processes of change and rebirth, where each piece acts as a testimony of art’s capacity to reflect the multiple facets of human existence.”
Mariano Azores
Art critic, journalist and member of the Madrid Association of Art Critics
“My approach to the work of Marta Buenaventura will always be impregnated by affection and sympathy, which originated when I met her. I was about twelve years old and there was something in her that called my attention powerfully – taking into account her youth, her passion for painting.
Her admired artists become direct references that Marta does not try to mask, without prejudice she “assumes” them rationally, knowing that other painters also did the same, and studies their proposals projecting her sensibility in each work.
Marta, like many other architects throughout the history of art, approaches painting, but without ceasing to have a markedly structural vision, in which space is, together with color, the protagonist of her work. And it is that in these days of interrelation between the arts, architecture and painting share some common fields that she has the agreement to highlight.“
Manuel Parralo Dorado
Professor of Painting, Compultense University (Madrid, Spain)
“Marta Buenaventura’s influences are diverse and profound. Her abstract work evokes echoes of American painting of the 1970s, especially that of Mark Rothko, reflecting an affinity for the exploration of color and pure emotion. In addition, her training in the Department of Painting IV of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid, has provided a solid academic foundation that translates into a refined technique and a refined aesthetic sensibility, pictorial informalism in which some paintings approach lyrical abstraction and others come close to a certain expressionism.”
Julia Sáez-Angulo
Vice-president of the Madrid Association of Art Critics, special services of EFE Agency, Antiquaria Magazine
“Marta, this painting is superb!”
Juan Huarte Beaumont
Industrialist, Businessman and Patron of Art (He sponsored Jorge Oteiza and other artists and promoted the ’72 Meetings in Pamplona)
“Marta Buenaventura’s influences are diverse and profound. Her abstract work evokes echoes of American painting of the 1970s, especially that of Mark Rothko, reflecting an affinity for the exploration of color and pure emotion. In addition, her training in the Department of Painting IV of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid, has provided a solid academic foundation that translates into a refined technique and a refined aesthetic sensibility, pictorial informalism in which some paintings approach lyrical abstraction and others come close to a certain expressionism.”
Julia Sáez-Angulo
Vice-president of the Madrid Association of Art Critics, special services of EFE Agency, Antiquaria Magazine
“Marta, this painting is superb!”
Juan Huarte Beaumont
Industrialist, Businessman and Patron of Art (He sponsored Jorge Oteiza and other artists and promoted the ’72 Meetings in Pamplona)
“Color field paintings, worked with meticulousness that seek shelter within themselves. The brush and the gattage, scratched and scraped, go hand in hand, perceiving these soft or strong incisions, always controlled on the transparencies of the color to achieve subtle effects of presence and vibration.
Each painting is a plastic adventure in the artist’s work. Its treatment is perceived as a new break, a new battle that differs from the work previously done. That explains why the pictorial series is not monochord within the unity of authorship itself.”
Julia Sáez-Angulo
Vice-president of the Madrid Association of Art Critics, special services of EFE Agency, Antiquaria Magazine
