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Martín Satí
Graphic Workshop.
www.martinsati.es
Martin Satí gives name to a small graphic workshop located in Seville city. He started his professional journey in 2005, focusing his work on art direction, graphic design and illustration.
He studied Fine Arts in Seville where he acquired a technical base. The last years he studied in UK where he could break with some academic dogmas and approach other contemporary sides. Both stages have been important to obtain the style that he provides to his illustrations, as he usually mixes the classicism with the contemporary.
Martin's profile joins several plastic disciplines, what defines him as a “graphic craftsman”. A clear parallelism exists between his work and traditional craftsman’s work. Both of them find in a popular context, something that improves the creation process while composing the graphic elements. In fact, Martin’s creative process is similar as the potter or ceramist one. He works at his workshop looking for a title or formal concept that allows him to create a few sketches and he searches the whole possible documentation on the topic. From this moment, he puts hands on work and begins to mix and compose the different graphic elements (textures, hand made drawings, etc...). All like a chemical process, distilling the components on his computer. Finally he purifyes and throws everything what he doesn’t need up to coming to an ideal result or a rare result.
His influences are so mixed. We can find many pictorial references like Luis Gordillo (f.e.), but the fan is wide and diverse: David Lynch, Sam Cooke, Unpotter's Clay, Marcelo Mastroianni, Chagal… He tries to extract something from all of them which contributes to his work: elegance, textures, something visceral, rhythm…
If we try to define his work, we would say that it is a sober and visceral mix. An attempt of expressing what there is inside things; the energy, the evilness, the passion… everything without loosing balance and forms. |
