Marcel Marti is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Catalan sculptors.
Education
He started drawing at the age 17 and soon gave up college to devote himself to art. On seing his drawings the painter Pere Prat Ubach offered to give him private lessons.
He receives the lessons from Ossip Zadkine, André Lhote and Paul Bornet
Career
The professional career of Marcel Marti started in 1948 with his first exhibition in Barcelona in the Sala Caralt which was a wild success and enabled him to travel to Paris, when he was 23 years old. In the early time of his creative life he was giving the most attention to paintings. In 1950 he travels to Sweden and Italy and gets acquainted with works of Michelangelo, which affected his creative work. In 1953 he takes part in the exhibition of "Contemporary Art", in Chile, and the Municipal Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Starting from this year he devotes himself into the sculpture. In 1958 his works obtain the character of abstract art. In 1959 he presents his first exhibition of sculptures in the Gallery Syra of Barcelona, starting from this time he works on creating more natural and symbolic forms. He took part in a large number of international exhibitions both collective and solo: exhibition in the Museum of Cuenca, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the First Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Barcelona, in Marlborough Gallery in London, "Week of Spain" in Rabat, the "Exhibition of Spanish Art" in Mexico, "Contemporary Spanish Art" in Helsinki, "22 Spanish Artists" in Fez and the XXXII Venice Biennale, etc. His most famous sculptures are: “Driade-America”, “Ritme i projecció”, “Cosmos”, “Proali”, etc. The sculptures of Marcel Marti adorn Barcelona, Almeria, Gerona, Madrid, California or Miami and others.