Biografia

García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A dormant passion for photography crossed the barriers of intimacy and he started a sparkling career characterized by photographic reflection, in contrast withthe author’s restless nature. In less than a year García de Marina gave in to a devotion for photography, unveiled his unusual photographic gaze in social networking sites, and presented his work in various exhibitions. Since 2011 he uses objects as a means of expression. He is interested in their symbolism, that random connection of elements that a priori lack of relation, condensation or essentiality, in order to translate them into an emotional burden. His work revolves around intuition and ideas, surrealism, and the world of the subconscious and dreams. His photography is deeply irreverent with reality, seeking to transform and stamp objects with new identities, challenging the obvious, and paying attention to the greatness of everyday life. The bareness of his photography endows objects with a leading role, while they are stripped of their essence to be reinvented. He seeks to give emotion to a piece of cutlery, to a match, or to tell a story, his own story, with an eggshell. The artist never gives his works a title, leaving them in a free interpretation, thus provoking a dialogue between his work and the spectator, and let the idea or story end in the mind of the observer; neither does he perform any photographic manipulation on the images. Instead, he transforms the objects creating scenes and looks for the best perspective to photograph them. His unusual creativity has not gone unnoticed by the media, both Spanish and foreign. Individual, group exhibitions and art fairs have allowed him to show his works in different countries around the world. From the minimalism and creativity of his gaze, García de Marina pursues another reality. In 2015 he was one of the chosen ones by the Spanish Embassy to participate in the«Photo Week Washington D.C.”. In 2017, the Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla León inSpain (MUSAC) selected three of his pieces for the “Constellations” exhibition, experimentalpoetry in Spain (1963-2016), where for the first time, the presence of visual and experimental poetry in Spain from the 1960s to the present is addressed. During last years the artist has participated in some Festivals of photography, in Spain and abroad as Photo Week D.C. in Washington (2015), Photo Romania Festival (2015), Photometria Festival in Greece (2016), Festival of the light in Argentina (2016), Bucharest Foto Week (2016), Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia (2016), Uppsala Foto Festival in Sweden (2017), Yangon Photo Festival in Myanmar (2018), Xposure International Photography Festival (2018) and Belgrade Photo Month (2019). In 2018 presented his exhibition “Diálo2” in the Barjola ́s Museum in Spain togetherwith one the most important visual poets of the 20th century in Spain, Joan Brossa. García de Marina is represented by Gallery 133 (Canada), NoonPowell Fine Art (United Kingdom), Flo Peters Gallery (Germany), .M Contemporary (Australia) and Fanxi Delarue Gallery (France).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

– “La Palabra Inacabada” – Instituto Cervantes Budapest – Hungary – 2020.– “Innocents” – “La Lonja del Pescado” – Spain – 2019.
– “La Palabra Inacabada” – Laboral City of the Culture – Spain – 2019.
– “Photographs” – Flo Peters Gallery – Hamburg – Germany – 2019.
– “La Palabra Inacabada” – Instituto Cervantes – Belgrade Photo Month – Serbia – 2019.
– “Nimius” – Xposure International Photography Festival –United Emirates–Sharjah – 2018.– “The New York City Poetry Festival” – New York – EEUU – 2018.
– “Innocents” – Yangon Photo Festival – Yangon – Myanmar – 2018.
– “Diálo2” – Joan Brossa y García de Marina – Barjola ́s Museum – Spain – 2018.
– “Nimius” – Upplandsmuseet – Uppsala Foto Festival – Sweden – 2017.
– “Nimius” – Addis Foto Fest – Ethiopia – 2016.
– “Seven Deadly Sins” – Bhucarest Photo Week – (Romania) – 2016.
– “Nimius” – Festival Photography of the Light – Argentina – 2016.
– “Nimius” – Palace of Quintanar – “Festival Photography SegoviaFoto” – Spain – 2016.
– “Poesía de lo Prosaico” – Photo Romania Festival – (Rumania) – 2015.
– “Niminus” – Art Gallery Viki Blanco – Spain – 2015.
– “Inusitada Realidad” – Center Portalea (Éibar) - Spain – 2014.
– “Inusitada Realidad” – Museum of Steel of Asturias – Spain – 2014.
– “Inusitada Realidad” – Art Gallery Mediadvanced – Spain – 2014.
– “Poesía de lo Prosaico” –Auditorium Prince Felipe- Spain - 2013.
– “Insospechada Cotidianidad” – Center of Culture Antiguo Instituto – Spain – 2012.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection)

«The Affordable Art Fair – Battersea Park» – NoonPowell Fine Art – London – 2020. «Generating Perspective» – .M Contemporary – Sidney – Australia – 2019.
«The Affordable Art Fair – London Hampstead» – NoonPowell Fine Art – London – 2019. «Fresh: Contemporary Art Fair» – NoonPowell Fine Art – Reino Unido- 2019.

“Twelve artists ten cities” - .M Contemporary – Sydney – Australia – 2018.
“Fantastic 4” – Blueríder Art Gallery – Taipei – Taiwan – 2018.
“Canada’s 150th Birthday” – Gallery 133 – Toronto – Canada – 2017.
“Constelaciones” History of the Poetry Visual in Spain (1963-2016) – Center of Contemporary

Creation of Andalucia C3A (Spain) – 2017.
“Five Senses” – Museum Barjola – Spain – 2017.
“Art Taichung” – Art Fair – Bluerider Art Gallery – Taipei – Taiwán – -2017.

“Der Blaue Reiter” – Blueríder Art Gallery – Taipei – Taiwán – 2017.
“Constelaciones” History of the Poetry Visual in Spain (1963-2016) – MUSAC - Museum

Contemporany Art of Castilla y Leon (Spain) – 2017.
“Parallel Voices” – International Festival Photography Photometria y PhotoRomania Festival –

Romania – 2016.
“My Kingdom for a Stage” – Headquarters de Capital One Bank – EE.UU. – 2016.“Parallel Voices” – International Festival Photometria – Greece – 2016.
“25th Anniversary” – Gallery 133 – Toronto – Canada – 2016.
“My Kingdom for a Stage” – Festival Fotoweek D.C. – Washington – 2015.“Marvelous Things: The Art of Still Life” – Photo Place Gallery – (E.E.U.U.) – 2015.“Tolerancia” Alliance Française de Madrid – Madrid – PhotoEspaña – 2011.

– “The Affordable Art Fair UK” – NoonPowell Fine Art – London – 2019.

– “Hi,Five” – Blueríder Art Gallery – Taipei – Taiwan – 2018.

“100% Design” – NoonPowell Fine Art – London – 2018.

“Sensibilities of Belonging” – NoonPowell Fine Art – Mall Galleries – London – 2018.

The artist is represented by:

Gallery 133Toronto (Canada)

Flo Peters GalleryHamburgo (Alemania)

.M ContemporarySydney (Australia)

NoonPowell Fine ArtLondon (United Kingdom)

Fanxi Delarue GallerySaint Germain en Laye (France)