There has been a notable change in the creative options that lie within artistic endeavors in the past year. The shift that digital possibilities now yield seems to blur the lines between the frameworks of potential and physical objects, thus rendering a new environment as a whole that artists need to work within, or perhaps more appropriately; with-in. For Daniel Martin, the context of creative virtuality has always been a sort of stepping stone, his pieces clearly play with-in emergence and assemblages and do so in a frantically conscious manner. Daniel´s oeuvre aims at establishing connections between elements in diaspora (mass dispersion). In his Garden of Cyrus, Daniel embarks on his most ambitious project yet, by facilitating a trace in connections between objects in different states of separation, playing with geography, ideology, and time.
The Garden of Cyrus is an enticer of virtual togetherness, an attempt at utilizing digital art in a symmetrical way to work within a new world disorder. For this, Daniel Martin assimilated concepts he has always worked with, by further developing the complexity of his understanding. Social bodies are assemblages, just as groups of friends possess emergent properties, and the endless possibilities that they may achieve together, become their virtuality.
Daniel Martin (1982) lives and works in Leiden, The Netherlands. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in the Museo de la Revolución, Havana; SOHD, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen; El Pez Soluble Gallery, Tequisquiapan; Booth Gallery, New York; The Who Gallery, London; Den Gallery, Kuwait City; Thinkspace, Los Angeles; and a duo show with Phillip Akkerman in The Hague.
by Ricardo Diaque
Image: Tryptich: Arising of Emergence (2021) Wood and acrylic collage on panel
The show runs from July 21 – August 21 and is digital-only. Visit the BEERS website for further information
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