Presences / Essences Series – romulo martinez

“…I represent through bursts and auras, the emotions from a search for self-discovery in the various moods of emotionality and thoughts within picturesque, playful and surreal contexts, where human figures and natural or everyday elements in an allegorical and cartographic way seek to narrate a story. It is in this way that the series that defines my work Presences / essences was born, a work in which color plays a symbolic and conceptual role accompanying the representations to evoke feelings and sensations…”
– Romulo Martinez

**Aspirations and their directions (Harvested)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen and varnish on canvas
90.25 x 38” aprox
2021

**Disconnected from our being (society / individual)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen and varnish on canvas
90 x 50.5” aprox
2021

**Introspection / deepening (being down to earth with thought)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen, polyethylene and varnish on canvas
104 x 36” aprox.
2021

**Which direction to take? (Static in thoughts)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen and varnish on canvas
90,25 x 38” aprox
2021

**Left – Right (questioned actuality)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen and varnish on canvas
72,25 x 49,5” aprox
2021

**Madness and Sense (Thoughts that disconnect)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen and varnish on canvas
90 x 50,5” aprox
2021

**Time to time (decree / act)**
Drawing with colored pencil, acrylic paint, silkscreen, polyethylene and varnish on canvas
90 x 51” aprox
2021

**Portrayed Circumstances** (View on exhibit)

Internal Searches (Messages from the senses) Polyethylene colored by the artist, intervened collage and acrylic paint on canvas. 20 x 100 x 1.5 in. 2021

**Connectivity (Object signs under my roof)** Polyethylene colored by the artist, intervened collage and acrylic paint on canvas. 24 x 36 x 1.5 in. 2021

**Limited Liability Society** Acrylic paint, intervened collage, polyethylene colored and assembled by the artist on canvas. 48 x 48 x 1.5 in. 2020

**Looking for Paths (Life at crossroads)** Polyethylene colored by the artist, intervened collage and acrylic paint on canvas. 20 x 16 x 1.5 in. 2021

Trapped Heart (Between the Spiritual and the Carnal) Collage, colored pencil and acrylic paint, polyethylene, six-pack net and enamel paint. 14 x 33 x 1.75 in. 2022

**Caught by Color** Collage intervened with colored pencil and acrylic paint, enamel paint, polyethylene colored by the artist and six pack net. Variable dimensions. 2022

Brotherhood (Detail) /// Polyethylene colored by the artist and collage on canvas – 20 x 10 x 1.5 in – 2020

Blue Presence /// Polyethylene colored by the artist and collage on 300 gr paper – 18 x 22 in – 2019

Yellow Presence /// Polyethylene colored by the artist and collage on 300 gr paper – 18 x 22 in – 2019

Red Presence /// Polyethylene colored by the artist and collage on 300 gr paper – 18 x 22 in – 2019

The Carnal Self (Dissociative identities) /// Colored polyethylene by the artist and collage on acid-free 300g paper – 15 in x 11 in – 2020

The Me Between 2 Me (Dissociative identities) /// Colored polyethylene by the artist and collage on acid-free 300g paper – 15 in x 11 in – 2020

The Spiritual Self (Dissociative identities) /// Colored polyethylene by the artist and collage on acid-free 300g paper – 15 in x 11 in – 2020

My Ally (In Madness) /// Screen printing, drawing with colored pencil, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper – 24 x 18 in – 2020

My Ally (In Contemplation) /// Screen printing, drawing with colored pencil, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper – 24 x 18 in – 2020

My Ally (In Introspection) /// Screen printing, drawing with colored pencil, acrylic and enamel paint on acid-free 300g paper – 24 x 18 in – 2020

At my own pace /// Serigraphy, collage, acrylic and enamel paint on 300 gr paper – 15 x 36 in (15 x 11 in each) – 2020

About the practice

The art pieces you are looking at are unique and there are no reproductions.

In each work that I carry out, without distinction of supports or dimensions, I give 100 percent of my heart and my technical skills acquired over the years of dedication in this profession, with the impetus to obtain a unique piece, with all the deserving artistic materiality. I do each artwork in long periods of intervention time, with the emotion of letting it speak to me and tell me: what colors, techniques or composition it needs to feel liberated from my thoughts and execution, in order to belong to the interpretation. visual of another person.

There are many techniques applied to each work, such as drawing, painting, screen printing, and spray, with various moments of execution of each one of them to emphasize and repower the composition, with the interest of seeing a work that is delivered and speaks for itself.