Untitled (MM 733)

Location

Country: Taiwan
City: Taipei
Place: British Trade & Cultural Office

The tangle of ribbon-like shapes which lie over and under one another in this painting by Marta Marcé creates depth, giving the composition a sense of three-dimensionality. Her paintings are inspired by the systems involved in games and play activities, and Untitled (MM733) seems to have evolved from the visual possibilities of a Scalectrix set, with tracks looping in circles and forming bridges over each other. The title, with its combination of a reference code and the word “Untitled”, helps focus our attention on the visual components of the work, avoiding the loaded meanings of more poetic titles which can obscure our interpretation. Marcé was born in Barcelone and studied at the Royal College of Art in London.

Marta Marcé was born in Barcelona and studied at the Facultat de Belles Art (1990-95) and later at the Royal College of Art, London. In the mid 1990s she lived briefly in Berlin and Paris and in 1996, she won a scholarship to work in Lima, Peru. Marcé has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. In 2001 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize. In 2008 she was awarded the Abbey Fellowship at the British School in Rome, where she lived and worked for four months. Also that year, Marcé was commissioned by the Government Art Collection, on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to make a site-specific installation for the central stairwell of the new British Embassy and Consulate-General offices in Madrid.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

acrylic (paint), canvas, acrylic painting

Artist

Marta Marcé (1972 - )

Title

Untitled (MM 733)

Date

2001

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

height: 183.30 cm, width: 260.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Milton Keynes Gallery, June 2001

Inscription

verso, tr on foldback: Marcé 2001

Provenance

Milton Keynes Gallery

GAC number

17617