Art by Martin Berger

Born in 1964, living and working in Grenoble, France. Martin Berger delicately and purposefully engraves his gestures and impressions of time into the dense material within which he works. Educated at the École du Louvre, he draws inspiration from nature and from studies of form within the decorative arts, hugely inspired by the ideas of the turn of the 20th century. Aesthetics and beauty are quintessential to his works, joining as they do so completely with the environment into which they are placed. In doing so, Martin Berger offers the spectator immersion within the ever-changing universe. His pieces move with a slow, hypnotic, and sometimes even mechanical pace, honouring the kinetic and optical art of the 1950s. Searching for a prolongation of gesture and time, his idols are as varied as Jérôme Bosch to Frank Stella; Julio Le Parc to Antoni Tàpies. Martin Berger's work can be viewed publicly and privately in collections in Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Shenzhen, Dubaï and Geneva.