SWAB Barcelona 2024

Our proposal for SWAB 2024 brings together a series of works by the multidisciplinary artist Marta Barrenechea (Madrid, 1964). Characterised by her singular, unique, almost indefinable style. We discovered her large-format oil paintings on paper at Ángel Romero's gallery in Madrid in 2010. Her work had something profound, simple and constant at the same time, marked with a personal stamp that permeates her work. 

Her first individual exhibition in our gallery took place in 2014, and since then we have presented her work in different exhibitions and fairs with both individual and group projects. Over time, his painting has become much more concrete and defined. Although we find certain elements that have a continuity throughout her production, Marta Barrenechea does not intend to create a repetitive or paralysing system. The starting and ending points of her works are different and change over time. In her latest works, the composition is articulated around fragments of embroidery that she makes herself on the canvas, later developing the rest of the painting with oil paint or other materials.