Nacho Martín Silva investigates modalities of representation, exploring ways of seeing through ways of painting and showing. Filled with visual references from the history of art, ranging from painting, sculpture, photography and cinema, to images taken from magazines, newspapers or books, his oeuvre interweaves technical, cultural and conceptual dimensions.

Focusing on compositional organisation dynamics, Martín Silva developed a specific approach consisting in building images by means of montage, sequence, association and confrontation while simultaneously using processes of decomposition, deconstruction, fragmentation or syncopation. Thus the artist produces paradoxical images and installations in which the assembled contrasting elements are in a constant state of tension. In - Il futuro non e


Evoking the dutch painting tradition of the seventeenth century and the genre scenes of middle-class life, the artist emphasises aesthetic concepts such as those of unity and disruption, of uniqueness and replica, repetition and difference, or similitude and heterogeneity.