Rodolphe Martinez

Rodolphe Martinez was born in Mont de Marsan (France) in 1969.

Mixed-media artist, his multiform work oscillates between photography, painting, video, installations and design. His hybrid and singular production features digital as well as more traditional techniques: painting, sculptures, cut-outs and collages.

His sources of inspiration are multiple and include references to painting, sculpture and cinema. His references are antique as well as contemporary. Portraits from Fayoum to Lynch, from Zurbaran to Turner, from sacred art to Mapplethorpe.

Nature, the female form, portraits, wine, the sacred and the city remain his favorite subjects and themes to explore. He captures, accumulates, cuts out, superimposes, melts, covers, paints and manipulates to deliver a phantasmagorical vision, amplified by color that the observer can interpret freely.

He creates through obsession, repetition, variation. He collects thousands of images which become his raw material. He stores mundane images, fragments, samples of artwork, moments, bits of reality that will ultimately be used alone, displaced, played with, melted, mixed and will become unrecognizable.

Myopia plays a huge role in his creations. Myopia is a disorder that conve...

Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez Sponsorship -

An exhibition in the St André Cathedral Bordeaux fully invested for the occasion. Presentation of twenty large scale paintings and video projections. Between 60 and 80,000 visitors a month.

More information :

http://www.institut-bernard-magrez.com/expositions/et-pour-vous-qui-suis-je

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Rodolphe Martinez designed the Trophy Sponsorship for the “Cité des Civilisations du Vin de Bordeaux”, a first representation of the wine, a tribute to the land and nature. This trophy is entitled “L’Offrande” (The Offering) and is available in 4 colors corresponding to different levels of sponsorship.

More information : http://www.citedescivilisationsduvin.com


roject ordered by Archbishop of Bordeaux – Work in progress.

For this creation, Rodolphe Martinez wished sanitized, light and meditative objects. The idea was to create a triangular altar like a ship’s prow (referring to Bordeaux Port past) and symbolic of the Trinity. The altar is openwork brass cross laser cut on the sides and on the table. A lighting system allows the projection cross the ground. The light as close as possible flame candles. The altar gives the impression of a s...