BARCELONA, 1964 Marta Lastra
The work of Marta Lastra offers the viewer a meditation on the subjectivity of space, where the result is not a simple exercise of representation, but a dialogue with the constructive elements of the pictorial fact.
She uses plastic resources such as the incorporation of collage or superimposed plans, while exploiting the expressiveness of painting and the reality of photography.
A multidisciplinary artist, she began her professional practice in 2010, exploring various media, including photography, painting and collage.
Her work has been exhibited in many national and international fairs: Justmad, Justlx Lisboa, Artmontpellier, Setup Bologna, Affordable Art Brussels…
Marta Lastra’s work is a walk through the different places where she has lived, a very particular look at the environment, both urban and natural.
Build the space with experience, take photos, draw, paint, accumulate images. She uses different technical procedures and participates in all the expressive elements available to him. She uses plastic resources such as the incorporation of collage or superimposed plans, while exploiting the expressiveness of painting and the reality of photography.
She unites real life with a created life, it is a psychic landscape where there are areas that you choose to be there and areas that you choose to remove, abstract areas and real areas.The work of Marta Lastra offers the viewer a meditation on the subjectivity of space, where the result is not a simple exercise of representation, but a dialogue with the constructive elements of the pictorial fact.
A PLACE TO GET LOST
by Consuelo Chacón
The exhibition “A place to get lost” is the result of the artist’s last years of work, of her attempt to define the poetic landscape beyond a contemplative experience. He builds his work from a desire to escape from rational reading, from objectivity, in favor of a lyrical participation in the world.
Marta Lastra approaches the concept of landscape from a contemporary perspective, questioning us about our capacity for emotion in the face of nature. She works, as a starting point, with spaces very close to her, with places in which she feels identified. However, the subtle way of intervening on them produces new landscapes where their experience has been joined to reality.
Pictorial and photographic work, from photography it presents us with objective reality to later intervene in it with the emotion of painting. This way he gets the viewer to immerse themselves in his work, showing them a scenario in which they must explore to understand his world.
In short, we are faced with a very biographical work but at the same time very open for the observer to recognize themselves in it. A work full of color and textures where the artist deploys all the resources of current painting.
