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Kris Martin is a Belgian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1972. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Michael Fuchs Gallery in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie Tatjana Pieters have featured Kris Martin's work in the past.Kris Martin's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 40 USD to 80,620 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 80,620 USD for Summit, sold at Christie's London in 2013. Kris Martin has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for e-flux in April 2024.
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Berlin has the coordination London lacks, and so it is that the annual Berlin Gallery Weekend sees 55 galleries on the official programme and at least as many other galleries all opening new shows on Friday 29 April.
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..Whether working on the scale of monumental sculpture or de-materialized gesture Martin`s practice positions itself at the extreme brink of cognition鈥攈ow knowledge and wisdom is gained at the close of experience...
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..Whether distilled to a single dot or fragmented into a thousand pieces, Martin鈥檚 art draws from the space in-between, an image of the world in which all activity, monumental or insignificant, may be just...
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..Martin`s work often draws attention to temporality and, in the centuries-long tradition of the memento mori, provokes viewers to remember death`s inevitability...
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..Despite their melancholic, symbolic and romantic aspects, Martin鈥檚 works are not categorical or histrionic, but often rooted in skeptical humor...
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..Martin often uses found objects, always with their own history in tow, while, on the other hand, objects that are elaborately produced for him; his works range from smallest formats to room-filling environments...
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