Omar Rodriguez Sanmartin was born in 1984 in Barcelona and lives and works in Nice.
Omar Rodriguez Sanmartin was born in 1984 in Barcelona and lives and works in Nice. His practice is essentially sculptural: he works from objects, tools and pre-existing forms, which he reworks, rethinks and reforges, in the literal as well as the figurative sense. A process of chimerisation takes place during studio work, through the dissection and then the assembly of these forms, which become, as it were, potentially alive, sometimes implying a projection into a use, a possible animation. The degrees of intervention vary: a simple contextual displacement, assemblages, deformations, casts and other reinterpretations are examples. The appropriation of craft or industrial know-how and techniques here produces poetic aberrations and protean pieces halfway between the organic and the mechanical, which appear as the results of metaphorical gestures in the hope of giving life to hybrid creatures…
