Javier Marín
“I always go back to sculpting the human body, because I never see exactly what I would like to achieve.”
Javier Marín, a Mexican artist, born in Uruapan, Michoacán (B. 1962) has an active career that surpasses thirty years. Marín has exhibited individually on more than ninety occasions and has participated in more than two hundred collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, as well as in various countries in Central America, South America, Asia, and Europe. (Read More)
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Marín’s work revolves around the human body as an integral entity, engaging analysis in the creative process based on the construction and deconstruction of three-dimensional forms. Although sculpture has been his focal point, he now includes drawing and photography as core disciplines.
Some of his exhibitions have been displayed in venues such as the Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, in Locarno, Switzerland (2016); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma Testaccio, in Rome, Italy (2013–2014); Museo di Palazzo Reale, in Milan, Italy (2008–2009); Bass Museum of Art, in Miami Beach (2006–2007); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico (2006); Espace Pierre Cardin, in Paris, France (2000); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, Mexico (1996); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, in Monterrey, Mexico (1993); among many others.
His work is in major public and private collections in Mexico and abroad and he has carried out projects and exhibitions in public spaces, such as on the stately street Lange Voorhout, in The Hague, Netherlands (2010); Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy; and Casa de América, in Madrid, Spain (2007). He has been invited to participate in international events such as the Exhibition for World Art Treasures and the inaugural exhibition at the China Art Museum, Shanghai (2012).
Marín has received diverse awards and distinctions, such as First Prize in the Third International Beijing Biennial (2008) and he was awarded the commission in the competition to design the main altarpiece and sanctuary of the Catedral Basílica de Zacatecas, Mexico (2010). In recognition of his itinerant exhibition De 3 en 3, made up of monumental works in a 3 by 3 formation, went to seven European cities Pietrasanta, Milan, The Hague, Brussels, La Baule-Escoublac, Luxembourg and Rome. Additionally, the Queen of the Netherlands granted him the title Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau (2009).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Important Exhibitions
2019 Javier Marín, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
2018 – 2019 Javier Marín: Jeux de Miroirs, Place du Louvre, Paris, France
2018 Javier Marín: Corpus, Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy
2017 Javier Marín Daidalos, Museo II Labirinto della Masone, Parma, Italy
2013 Cabeza de Hombre / Cabeza de Mujer, Museo de El Carmen, Mexico City, México
2012 Javier Marin, Cabezas Monumentales, Esplanade of the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, México
2010 Javier Marín: Caballo Madero, Esplanade of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, México
Javier Marín, Cabeza Vainilla, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, México
De 3 en 3, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Javier Marín, Escultura, Museo Federico Silva, San Luis Potosí, México
2005 Retroperspectiva, Museo Amparo, Puebla, México
2002 Javier Marín, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
1997 Javier Marín, Bronces, Museo y Casa de Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, México
1996 Javier Marín, Esculturas, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, México
Important Group Exhibitions
2014 Los Artistas Responsables en Defensa de la Fauna, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México
El Hombre al Desnudo, Dimensiones de la Masculinidad a partir de 1800, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, México
2008 Third Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2003 Cuerpos Terrenales: Esculturas en Barro, Museo de Antropología, Mexico City, México
1998 Forma y Figuración, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
1995 Autorretratos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, México
1991 La Escultura de la UNAM, Museo Universitario del Chopo-UNAM, Mexico City, México
1990 – 1991 59th Exhibition of the Japanese Stamp Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Point / Counter-Point, Re-imagining the Avant-Garde: Modernism and the Art of Latin America, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biennales
2009 Vancouver Biennale
2008 Third International Beijing Biennale
2003 Venice Biennale
2001 Venice Biennale