Sebastià Martí Benedí

Artist	Sebastià Martí Benedí	Resides	Spain
Website	sebastiamarti.com	Medium	Watercolor Oil Pencil Ink Digital
Print Shop	sebastiamartiprints.com/shop tentomushibcn.com/sebastia-marti	Email	im[email protected]
Follow the Artist	Instagram	Themes	Alternative World Eroticism Humor Portrait Surrealism and symbolism

About the artist

Sebastià Martí Benedí is a visual artist and illustrator. He introduces himself with four brushstrokes.

He defines his work with a few labels (that thing as odious as practical), they would probably be: symbolism, surrealism, eroticism and humor. He likes to explore different styles and themes, which makes his work look deceptively heterogeneous. And although he is not one to put words to artistic intentions, it could be said that what he seeks is to provoke sensations, small physical and mental twinges.

As for the technique, Sebastià have a certain preference for watercolor because of the agility it offers and, above all, because he have reached a level that allows him to express his ideas in a very precise way. His repertoire also includes pencil and ink drawing, digital illustration and, to a lesser extent, oil painting.

At this point of his life, he would like to have more visibility to be able to focus entirely on artistic creation.

Artwork Themes & Subject Matter

Over the years Sebastià Martí Benedí has come to look at his life (and forgive the metaphor which he think is necessary in this case) as a stroll through a sort of forest in which the sensations produced by its elements change constantly; from terror and the most depressing panic, to love so pure as being suspicious; from egoism and exhibitionism to heartbreaking sadness; from the humor that misses laughter through the awareness of the passing of time; from the unconscious, dreamlike fantasy, which partially lives through nights and days, to the conscious imagination, which produces non-existent worlds; from sick and disgusting feelings towards lust sought after, and especially, towards lust that is not.

The metaphor of the forest allows him to give meaning to this mixture of sensations. If he squint just enough, a set of slimy, trypophobic, attractive and repulsive shapes appear and surround him, altogether, writhing among themselves, sprouting here and there without logic. When one is affected by aesthetics, the environment, real and imaginary, exerts a strong influence on the way we encode and represent sensations and feelings.

Press

Sebastià Martí Benedí’s paintings have been featured in Cultura Inquieta.

CV

Education

1992-1994

Graphic design 4th and 5th course at the Llotja design school in Barcelona

1990-1992

Graphic design 2nd and 3rd course at IDEP design school in Barcelona

1985-1990

Graphic arts at the Salesians de Sarrià school in Barcelona

Awards

2023

International Wine Challenge Industry Awards for best packaging (label) for Lagalin wine, wine made by Gallina de Piel and Olga Verde

2020

First prize in the XXIV contest of graphic humor “Curuxa do Humor” in Fene, Galicia

2013

Best audiovisual Bronze in the Film category Aspid Awards

Audiovisual piece “Optyfree”

2012

PA Best of Health Awards

Global Awards 2012. Winner in the Film/Video category

El Sol Ibero-American Festival of Advertising Communication

2011

IPA Best of Health Awards 2011. Bronze in the Film category

The RX Club 2011. Silver in the Patient education category

El Sol Ibero-American Advertising Communication Festival 2011. Sol de Oro in the category Health / Prescription Products. Global Awards 2011. Winner in the Film/Video category.

2006

Best color in the 1st International Comic Contest of Norma Cómics, for “El invitado de honor”. Two years later it was published in the prestigious American comic magazine Hevy Metal