Patrick Martinez

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Patrick Martinez (b. 1969, Besançon, France) currently lives in New York. He studied in the Institute of High Studies in Visual Arts in Paris, France also at the Fine Arts School of Grenoble. His art was exhibited in solo shows in Metrenom Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; Vallois Gallery in Paris, France; and at the Casa Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Group shows in Exit Art in New York City, Art in General in New York City, Contemporary Creation Center in Paris, and Arcos de Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Martinez has been an artist in residence in France, Japan and the United States.

Martinez is a sculptor, filmer, and artist. His most famous artwork to date is Luquid, which was presented at Parker's Box in Brooklyn, New York, in the year 2003, this introduced Patrick Martinez into the post-modern art world

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He has created liquid with the support of the Cultural Services of the French embassy in New York, The Association Fracaise d'Action Artistique (AAFA) and Golden Artist Colors.

Martinez shows his artistic diversity using a variety of media. He crafted a film by assembling in rapid sequence cryosection slices from male and human cadavers that were part of the "Visible Human Project" sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. The footage created an image of abstract images of travelling through a human body.