Marria Pratts

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Sad City, Galeria L&B contemporary art, Barcelona, Spain
Time is Sick, Sade Gallery, Los Angeles
Selfie Corner, Matadero, Center for Contemporary Creation, Madrid, Spain
Your Style Is So So, Garros Roland Gallery, Essen, Germany
El Refugi, MACBA, Barcelona
Nou Somni, La Puntual Gallery, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
Linia Deliri, Ús Barcelona and Otromba, Budapest, Hungary

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Punk. His traces in contemporary art, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
CA2M, Madrid and Artium Museum, Vitoria
Got It For Cheap, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm and Agnes B, Paris, France
Seriot, Andén, Barcelona, Spain
A Tutiplén, Watdafac, Madrid; “La Balada de Wendy Entre d’Autres”, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Days in the Basement, Roser 99, Barcelona, Spain

About

A dialogue between contraries, between idea and craft, sanity and decadency. The work by Spanish artist Marria Pratts moves us just at first glimpse and can surely not be classified. Using a colorful and bold color palette, the artist narrates the beauty in the contrast of emotions, thoughts and mixed feelings on her large canvases and sculptures.

For some, her oeuvre might seem a bit political, satirical of our society and its problems, however, to Pratts there is an inherent beauty in these problems. Her work faces us with a reality sometimes too hard to watch, but that depicted through smiley faces and colorful neon ghosts, calms us and makes us meditate. There is nothing wrong with a deformed figure, with a sad face, with ghosts, they are all part of our reality and coexist within us, and whitin Maria’s work.

Strongly influenced by her surroundings and by where she paints, Pratts works in the abstraction field with lines of gesturalism and a strong taste for neon color and neon art.

She considers herself an outsider, deeply aligned with the Art Brut values, no wonder she studied in the Masana School, a well known art school in Barcelona famous for its crafts. Marria makes art with what surrounds her, making every little quotidian object a key piece to her oeuvre.

From her sculptures to her paper works, Marria Pratts invites us to be participants in a loud dialogue between happiness and sadness, and how they are both an essential part of us.