With more than twenty years of professional career in
contemporary art, the quality of his work has lead him
to represent Mexico in international festivals in
Spain, USA, Italy, Slovakia, Canada, Argentina,
Hungary, Finland, and China.

This multidisciplinary artist has found in sculpture,
painting, installation, performance art, such as
spectacular wearable art and machines of his own
design, a proper language which express his vision of
the world.

The prodigious of his art, take roots in the
profundity of an in force lecture, that talk about the
reality we run through nowadays as a society and as
persons.

Starting from the body, Martin Renteria creates
rituals, where actions, objects and atmospheres
provoke all kind of interpretations of the same
reality. He plays with universal concepts such as
space, power, balance, time, uncertainty, human being
essence and the urgency for establish genuine
relationships, by means of symbols that causes
reactions and reflections in every spectator.

Concerned with evolution, Renterias work, invites us
to analyze present time from which emanates questions
about the soul and planets destination, and to
undertake ways towards higher conscience levels.

Rituals are something essential in the daily life of
human beings, like religion, sports, politics, etc. The mechanisms and languages of the ceremonies will always being present like fundamental parts of social organization and communication.

In my performances I look to create special rituals using common objects, this way,taking out of context
this objects, I pretend to transform them into a level o I give to those objects a strong symbolic charge
inside a ritual ceremony in which the exploration of the
space, time and body are catalyzers in this rite. Such
ceremonies provoke a truthful result of catharsis
in the protagonist. The spectator in my performances
identifies daily basis objects and situations posed in very different manners. This way the spectator is
pushed consciously or unconsciously to imagin in different ways, breaks schemes and create all kind of interpretations about the many different possibilities of the same reality.

Martin Renteria

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