Garcia de Marina

García de Marina was born in Gijón, Spain, in 1975. Having taken up photography in 2010, de Marina received an offer from the Spanish Embassy to represent the country at the 2015 FotoWeek DC competition. Two years later, the Castile and León Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC) selected three of his pieces for the exhibition titled Constellations: Experimental Poetry in Spain (1963–2016), the first exhibition to explore Spanish visual and experimental poetry from the 1960s to the present. In 2018, García de Marina exhibited his works alongside those by one of the most important Spanish visual poets of the 20th century, Joan Brossa, in the Diálo2 show held at the Juan Barjola Museum of Painting in Gijón. In 2021, the Spanish national postal service Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telégrafos, S.A. issued 162,000 stamps with an image based on García de Marina’s artwork.

>García de Marina’s art is pure photography. The artist steers clear of image manipulation; instead, he uses actual objects to materialise his ideas and captures them with a camera that allows to retain much detail and work with large-scale prints. García opts for the natural even when it comes to lighting: to avoid stark shadows, he usually shoots in the morning or in cloudy weather, using bright daylight hours to create new objects for later sets. Some of them stay in the studio after the photoshoot, sparking further ideas.