Gerboc Martin – Emptiness

Martin was Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1971. He started studying graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 1991, graduating in 1996. As a student he had the opportunity to participate in artist-in-residence programmes in the USA and Denmark, where he also took a postgraduate degree from the College of Danish Design in Kolding. He studied as a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava from 2001 to 2004. He improved his artistic expertise during study visits to Paris (Cite Internationale des Arts) in 1998, 2002 and 2007. In 2007 Martin was one of the curators of the international exhibition “Jeune creation europeenne / Salon tinerant d’art contemporain” in Paris. Since 1991 he has been exhibiting in individual shows in Slovakia, Czech Republic, France, USA, as well as numerous group exhibitions in distinguished galleries. A Czech publishing house Arbor published his monograph A Season in Hell, including texts by Otto M. Urban, Petar Vanous and Miroslav Marceeli. Together with world-renowned artists like Cindy Sherman and Jeff Koonst, he exhibited his works at the exhibition “Decadence now?” held at a Prague gallery Rudolfinum, as well as the exhibition of recent Slovakian and French creative outputLe Bell peinture Martin writes poetry and prose, he authored five books in philosophic essay genre, he makes short films and promotional videos. He works in Bratislava and Prague