Paul Klee said that the function of the art is not just to represent what is visible but to make a new reality visible. And that is to say, precisely, what Marta Montcada obtains when building a new and captivating reality: her spaces, where with exact arrangement, fine execution and energetic gentleness, arise the most intimate resonances of elements that have motivated them. In her engravings and paintings on paper, - Marta Montcada has special predilection for this support -, awake the secrets with its gentleness, transparencies and subtleties, originating a whole of beautiful abstractions, their presence going farther beyond the same real elements where they have been generated, spreading to a world of joyfully images. To the works by Marta Montcada we can apply the concept by Okakura-Kakuzo in his Book of the Tea: “To the magical touch of the beauty, the most secret fibbers of our sensitivity arise from lethargy in response to their calling, vibrate and tremble. The spirit speaks to the spirit. We feel what is not yet spoken, we contemplate the invisible”. (...)

Josep Maria MIRÓ LLULL, painter and writer. CITY of Majorca

Marta Montcada’s painting arises from the joining of the sky and the earth, the abstract and the natural. She creates an internal order in her compositions that harmoniously combine the concentration and expansion of the elements, reaching further than the limits imposed by the work’s support, revealing moments of inexhaustible action.

Her work deeply penetrates the search for the beginning of the universe and its elements, recreating them in a thousand different ways, giving shape and colour to the contents of her imagination. This search means that the artist shows us fragments of this world, containing the essence of the first moment in which some elements take shape and colour and become a reality. She captures the atmosphere which surrounds the structures and which brings balance to the composition, creating the feeling that everything is there and in its proper place. In this way each fragment is a cosmos within itself, able to coexist in harmony with the other fragments, peacefully, without losing its independence or identity.

The elements of nature that we see are light traces of the sensitive world that visibly appears in the expanding universe.
Marta Montcada imagines this cosmos in different colours, but of them all, the use of blue stands out in an infinity of tones and nuances; conjuring up images of nocturnal space and oceanic depths with all their latent magic, in which everything emerges and floats. She situates herself like this, inside reality, at its roots. Her creativity shows us this multi-shaped cosmos that emerges from a non-existent place in her paintings; from nothing like the origin of matter, shapes and colours. She captures the essence of reality presenting it simply and naturally. From her work it is easy to contemplate or imagine this infinite expanding space in constant movement.

Marta Montcada shows us what remains, what already existed before us. She shows us that everything is enveloping us with dual intention.  She invites us to look for the essence of this magical world which is opened up before us, and she questions us on the place that we humans occupy in this universe of which we are absent and yet of which we form a part. Her creation is not complete until the spectator, external agent of the work, places himself in front and becomes a part of it. (...)

Professor Francisco Javier Caballero, Art & History Professor and writer, Madrid

1961 Barcelona.
1984 Graduate in Fine Arts (Speciality of Engraving) for the University of Barcelona and cofounder of the workshop of engraving and Binomial serigraphy of Barcelona, where she has worked with relevant contemporary artists.

From then has participated in a long list of art fairs, thematic and group exhibitions, collaborations with other artists; also in designs of sculptures, projects of interior desing and multimedia facilities (festival of the flowers, Girona 2001,04,06,08).
Of her participation in contests, she has obtained prizes in the field of engraving, painting, drawing, design, pottery and photography.

Solo Shows

1987
Gallery Fort. Series de Serigraphy’s Gris Llum. Cadaqués, Girona.
Hostel de La Gavina. S'Agaró, Girona.
La Fil·loxera. Town Hall of Saint Sadurní d'Anoia, Barcelona.
1988
Monotypes. Room of Exhibitions of Els 4 Gats, Barcelona.
Room Genaro Poza. Centro Cultural de la Caja de Zaragoza, Huesca.
1989
Design and edition of the Artist Book Tódalas Augas. Conselleria de Culture
de la Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.
1990
Tropical. Gallery Piscolabis, Barcelona.
1991
ShowRoom Les Voltes de Casa Bas. Capellades, Barcelona.
1993
Del Mediterrani. Gallery ANRI i ANRI Six. Nagoya, Japó.
1994
Espais. Gallery TOLL D’ART. Granollers, Barcelona.
Gallery HOT STUDIO (AUNKAN). Osaka, Japan.
1995
ESPAI DADA, Gallery d’Art. Granollers, Barcelona.
1996
Gallery 141. Nagoya, Japan.
Gallery ANRI. Nagoya, Japan.
Gallery MIHARAYA. Tokyo. Japan.
Showroom Superior d’ ART ACTUAL - AULA DE LLETRES, Bcn. 
1998
Gallery EMPORI, Empuriabrava, Girona.
Gallery LADS, Osaka, Japan.
Gallery MARYA, Takatsuki, Japan.
Gallery MIHARAYA, Tokyo, Japan.
1999
Spanish representing at Exposition European EKO´99 a Oberkirch, Germany. Invitation to the exhibition, stage, presentation and conferences of the participant artists.
2000
Gallery TRESPEUS, Vic, Barcelona.
Gallery ANRI, Nagoya, Japan.
Gallery STRASSE, Nishinomiya, Japan.
2001
Gallery KASEIDO, Kyoto, Japan.
2002
Exposition of painting and presentation of Homenatge a Salvador Dalí, 1904-2004 with 3 original engravings of Marta Montcada. Figueres and La Vajol.
2003
Gallery LADS, Osaka, Japan.
Gallery SALÓ HASHIMAYA, Kurashiki, Japan. With pottery of the artist Mayao Umesao.
Gallery ANRI, Nagoya, Japan.
Anthological a les Sales de NAGASE, KIYOSU, Japan.
Gallery AU VIRAGE, Séprais, El Jura, Suisse.
2004
Permanent exposition of Marta in the Cafè Marta, Kobe. Japan.
2005
Gallery RÚA X d’ART of Manresa, exhibition Marta Montcada and Martí Rom.
Gallery LADS, Osaka, Japan.
Lluvià House, Manresa.  Exhibition itinerant in Catalonia,  I Exposició Internacional “Catalunya, Bellesa i Fortalesa”.
Gallery SALÓ HASHIMAYA, Kurashiki, Japan. With the crafts of Mayao Umesao.
Showroom of the Town Hall of the City IWAKURA, Aichi, Japan.
Art Fair Nakanoshima, Osaka, Japan.
2006
Exhibition “Tamayura” with Azusa Kito at Espai d’ART Rubiralta, Manresa.
Exhibition “Washi”, paper works of Marta Montcada and Koldo Sebastián, Gallery Jose Ibarra, Barcelona.
2008
University Kasei Gakuhin Daigaku, Machida, Tokyo. Organised by Fundation MITA’I of Paraguay.