The work “Sem Título” (Untitled), from 1966, was created during Jorge Martins' first phase in Paris, where he lived from 1961-1973, and which corresponds to a relevant period of his affirmation as an artist. It was during this period that he developed an activity of greater experimental intensity, guided by research that proved to be fundamental to his work: forms of interpretation and reproduction of light, along with the embodiment of the immaterial in a plastic dimension. The breadth of research and exploration developed by Jorge Martins has resulted in a language that has freely traversed the spectrum between abstraction and neo-figuration.
Such is the case with this painting, in which the main element, offset from the main axis of the canvas, is a blue sphere with light and shadow treatment, hovering over a dark neutral background. This geometric element is surrounded by a series of individualised coloured images that are arranged along the edges. Most appear as small paintings inscribed on what resembles sheets of white paper, while others appear more loosely with elements of greater volumetry and with the introduction of perspective and depth. While the scenes framing this sort of “blue planet” create a compositional and formal dynamic, when we try to interpret this multiplicity of content around the sphere, we realise that these small pseudo-figures are hybrid and ambiguous, with a dreamlike dimension and no immediate correspondence with reality. There is a certain provocation in the way the viewer is challenged to decipher the artist's creative freedom. 

Adelaide Ginga