Marta Gaspar

You are looking at the work Equilibre dans la campagne II (“Equilibrium in the Countryside II”), by the Argentine artist Marta Gaspar.

Marta Gaspar was born in the city of Rosario, Argentina, in 1938, where she started painting at a very young age. She moved to Europe in the mid-sixties and resides there to this day.

Her work, with a naïf aesthetic, focuses on depictions of women. Women and girls are surrounded by sublime real or imaginary natural settings. She also places her figures on decontextualised backgrounds based on spots of colour, which is typical of neo-figuration but also surrealism.   

Both natural spaces and coloured backgrounds imbue Marta Gaspar’s work with a dreamlike aesthetic that falls somewhere between imagination and dreams. As we can see in her work Equilibrium in the Countryside II, the presence of fantastic characters, some of them semi-human, and the way in which she paints place her within the genre of magic realism.

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  Equilibre dans la campagne II, 1989

  Equilibrium in the Countryside II
  Marta Gaspar
  Oil on canvas
  146 x 114 cm

  Ralli Gestión

Silvia Sánchez Ruiz
Curator