Martí Rom is a sculptor with roots of the Field of Tarragona, precisely in Mont-roig. For more than twenty years -since 1975-  he has been crearing sculpture artworks. Throughout these years he has developed a wide work, rich in approaches and, at the same time, rich in suggestions.

The wood, the iron, the bronze, the steel, the aluminum, the inlays of lead..., with regard to the materials, and the integration, the juxtaposition, the assembling..., with regard to the procedures, they take it to a new family of objects, of rich symbolic charge, where the mythical, the objectual and the instrumental establish a different and original synthesis, which is shown in the contents and in the bonds of every work.

Three main references surface in the plastic universe of Martí Rom: Picasso and his ingenious acrobatic capacity to transform the most trivial objects into works of art; Miró and his dense oneiric world full of freedom and of wise innocence, the found object; and the bad called "primitive" art, with its schematic forms and its symbolic hermetism. The three have an essential common denominator, something that captivated Martí Rom from his beginnings, when he knew and treated Miró, discovered Picasso and made contact with the universe of the masks and the African art.

Tireless traveller of the interior world, through the bold manipulation of the materials, obtains the harmonic piece, wisely worked. Moderate observer, Martí Rom recovers of the oversight daily objects, tools of the field or domestic utensils, to the constant search of the recovery of the roots, with what, the mixture of natural and artificial elements turns into a perfect binomial, overflowing of absence of superficiality.

Born in Barcelona on May 29th in 1955, living in Barcelona and temporarily in Mont-roig, Tarragona
From childhood on in the company of different artists, during summer joining Joan Miró in Mont-roig and A. Oliver Ferrer in Barcelona in winter
His master in drawing was the sculpturer Clemente Ochoa
1974 studying at the art academy in Barcelona, Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos,
his master in Art History being Arnau Puig
From 1974 on exposing and making of environements i performances
1977 joining the artist association Guipuzcoana Donosti
1980 creation of Estudi Dos Sets (series of drawings)
1983 – 1993 member and secretary of Assossiación Catalana de Artístas Plásticos (ACAP)
1991 restoration of the rationalistic façade at C/. Padua, 96, Barcelona (by the architect Sixte Illescas; collaboration with magazines Accions (Barcelona), Ressó (Mont-roig), Cinema 2001 (Madrid), Lligam (Brusselles,. Bonart (Girona)
1993 co-founder of the group Transit Art and homonymous gallery in Barcelona;
participation in different acts of Joan Miró’s centenary in Mont-roig and Barcelona
1995 Transit Art owns a further gallery, Espai Blanc, en Barcelona
1997 co-organizing the exhibition of F. Català Roca on the occasion of his 75th birthday
1998 applying seven monumental sculptures of Francesc Carulla at the façade of
Parroquia Sta. Eulália de Vilapicina in Barcelona
2004 30-years-anthology exhibition at the Centro Miró in the old church Esglesia Vella in Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona)
collaboration at Marató of TV 3 against cancer, creating a mural with various artists in Girona
Also collaboration with the painter Matt Lamb in Chicago creating joined artwork.
 

Art prizes

1978. XVI Saló d´Art de Martorell. Barcelona.
1980. Xlème. Salon International d´Arts Plastiques . Bèziers. France.
1981. Xème. Salon Internationa Genève. Suisse.
XXVème. Salon d´Arts Plastiques de Béziers. France.

Solo shows

1979. Taller de Picasso, Barcelona. Catàleg-postals (escrit Josep Vallés Rovira)
“Coses 76”. Sala d´Art Jove Leonardo da Vinci, Barcelona.
1980. “Personatges”. Sala d´Art Jove Leonardo da Vinci, Barcelona.
1981. Taller de Picasso, Barcelona. Catlàleg-postals núm. 2 (escrit Raúl Ruiz).
1982. Fontana d´Or, Girona (escrirt Josep Casals).
Trama d´Art. Barcelona (poema Joan Brossa).
1983. Sargadelos, Madrid (escrit Raúl Ruiz). Catàleg-postals núm. 3 (escrit Josep Miquel García).
1984. “Sillas para una exposición” Planta Baixa, Granada (escrirt Maria Dolores Arroyo).
“La cremor del bronze”. DCD, Caldes de Montbui (Barcelona).
1985. Somnis Ignots”. Caixa de Barcelona, Tarragona (escrits Josep Miquel García i Joan Gart).
1987. “Bronze Abrivat” Galeria Tertre, Mataró (Barcelona) (escrits Carles Poy i Raúl Ruiz).
1988. “Bronzealitats” Castell de Benedormiens, Castell d´Aro (Girona) (escrits Díaz Guinot i Joan Gart).
1989. “Més enllà del desig”. Torre Vella, Salou (Tarragona) (escrits Josep Vallés i Joan Lluís Montané).
1990. “Codi de Somnis”. Sala d´Art Municipal Can Masarella, Sant Boi (Barcelona) (escrits Conxita Oliver i Raúl Ruiz).
1991. “Batecs Interiors”. Born Galeria, Barcelona. Catàlegs (escrits Daniel Giralt-Miracle i Joan Gart).
1992. Galeria Can Marc, Begur (Girona).
“Màscares d´Enguany i d´Engany”. Anglès (Girona).
1993. “L´ amarg gust de la garrofa”. Trànsit, Barcelona. Catàleg (escrit Conxita Oliver).
“Miroia”. Presentació disseny tèxtil Centenari Miró. Museu Tèxtil de Barcelona.
1994. “Jocs d´Infants”. Torre Vella, Salou (Tarragona) (escrit Arnau Puig).
1996. “Castells i Palmeres. Sèrie Negra”. Espai Blanc, Barcelona. Catàleg (escrit Arnau Puig).
Belgium Gent International Art Fair. Art i Tècnica (escrit Conxita Oliver).
1997. “Eixir. Exit”. Galeria Dean, València. Catàleg (escrits Joan Perucho, Josep Piera i J.M- Cadena).
1998. Memòria Activa. Sala Sant Roc, Valls (Tarragona) Catàleg (escrits Francesc Miralles i Jordi París)
Galeria Can Marc, Girona
2000. “Terra seca, òxid negre” Fundació Espai Guinovart d´Agramunt, Lleida. Catàleg (escrit J.M. García)
2001. Espai Stutton-Espai Blanc. Barcelona. (escrit Martí Rom).
“Oxidart” .El Castillo de Requena. València. Catàleg (escrit per Jordi Gonzàlez Llàcer).
2002.“Tants Caps,...”. Fundació Bancaixa. Sagunt (València) Catàleg (escrit M. Carme Roca).
2003. “Després de l´ensurt” Galeria del Palau. València. Catàleg (escrit Conxita Oliver).
2003. “Suite Mont-roig” Galeria Antoni Pinyol, Reus. Tarragona (escrit Carles H. de Mor)
2004. “Les mans son les eines” Esglesia Vella Centre Miró Mont-roig (Tarragona) Catàleg selecció de crítics 30 anys.
Fira Internacional de Copenhagen (Dinamarca)

Artwork in private collections

Catalonia, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, Xile, Argentina and E.E.U.U.

Galleries with permanent artwork

Marc 3. Barcelona.
Galeria Antoni Pinyol. Reus. Tarragona.
Botó de Roda. Torroella de Montgrí. Girona.
Galeria del Palau. València.
Galeria Arte Muro. València.
Galeria del Museum Matt Lamb. Tünsdorf. Alemanya.
Galeria Omnium Ars. Platja d’Aro (Girona)
Galeria Joan Planellas. Tossa de Mar (Girona)

Artwork in public spaces

Museu Municipal de Martorell. Barcelona.
Diputación de Pontevedra.
Museu Municipal de Castell d´Aro. Girona.
Caixa de Barcelona. Barcelona.
Museu de la Garrotxa. Olot. Girona.
Biblioteca Universitat d´Oldenburg. Alemanya.
Museo Internacional de Electrografía. Cuenca.
Museu de Valls. Tarragona.
Passeig J. Brufau. Agramunt. Lleida.
Fundació Bancaixa. Sagunt. València.
Museu Municipal de Requena. València.
Museu Diocesà de Venècia. Itàlia.
ParcArt. Cassà de la Selva Girona