Martin Moor (b.1984) lives and works as a cosmopolitan artist, residing mostly in Europe. Moor's emotions-driven abstraction is party rooted in his experience growing up in the turbulent times of Central Europe which woke up a desire to reflect artistically on the illogical features of our contemporary society by following the footsteps of masters of the late 20th century Abstract Expressionism. He has been creating works of art since 1997. Martin did his first explorations in painting by gaining inspiration and encouragement from a foundation supporting Middle-European artists, then trained personally by professors of several European free academies of fine arts and eventually his pace of work have become accelerated during the covid-pandemic. Moor's paintings are characterized by the integrating contemporary twists into the creative methods of abstraction. Gesture-driven motifs in bold, vivid colours cover the thick acrylic grounding, dispersing from the centre of the canvas. As with Pollock, Clifford, Kotin, Riopel, Kooning, Brooks or other abstract masters, a wide arrange of non-traditional instruments are employed into the process of creation, including knives, blades, towels, or his own body. Martin's artworks make attempt to document the momentum of movement, to grasp the dynamic of visual memories. Since Martin's inspiration for creation cannot be separated from his drive to reflect on contemporary social, moral, ecological experiences, he occasionally integrates reinterpreted, emotionally burdened symbols into his paintings. Recently Martin developed a unique and extravagant technique which combines the layers of paint with solid amount investment-grade of gold bars thus creating an artistic object with values respected by the capitalist society. This ironic reflection touches the issue of the wider relevancy and social acknowledgement of art well beyond the aesthetic dimension. It explores a new common ground between material and artistic, economic and moral dimensions of our world. Both gold and art are treated as investments and treasures but their monetary values are determined by inherently psychological factors. Martin's technique is also a legally protected intellectual property.
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Next exhibition: 2022 Basel
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