Marty

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Born in 1969 in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Marty grew up in a world shaped by powerful images — those of cinema and comic books. But everything shifted when he discovered René Laloux’s *Fantastic Planet*: a visual and aesthetic shock that drove him to draw relentlessly, igniting a visceral passion for imagery.

His path has been anything but linear. Before fully embracing the artistic realm, Marty explored multimedia, computer science and psychology, only to return to his first instinct: the visual arts. He then began a bachelor’s degree in fine arts while searching for his own artistic voice — a style capable of merging his deepest influences.

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It is in digital printmaking that the artist finally finds his language. The turning point comes when he watches an artist recreate a Rembrandt painting in digital form: he realizes that a contemporary tool can carry a classical emotion. From that moment on, he dives into a pop, colorful, critical and sensuous universe, nourished by multiple references, both visual and cultural.

Marty embraces a dualistic approach — at once fascinated and critical. His art creates tension between the alluring beauty of popular culture and the excesses of a consumerist world in crisis. Through his powerful female figures, captured gazes, and assembled faces, he questions our relationship to representation, desire and idealization, while subtly warning about the state of the world. “It’s a love/hate relationship with our civilization,” he says. His work embodies this ambivalence, oscillating between visual hedonism and ecological awareness.

Marty’s creative process is just as hybrid as his influences. He composes: an eye from one image, a mouth from another, a body, fabrics, textures, an attitude — elements he patiently assembles. Emotion is always the starting point, but the artwork evolves, settles, pauses, and returns stronger. His software becomes a canvas; his digital tools, the paintbrushes of the 21st century. And it is only when he feels the physical urge to see his creation printed on canvas that he considers the work complete.

Instinctive yet never improvised, Marty cites among his influences: Caza, Serpieri, Bilal, as well as Corno, Voka, Mucha, and even Bak and Ferri — artists who, like him, explore the boundaries between the real and the fantastical, between beauty and unease.

Now fully immersed in the world of digital creation, Marty is a visual explorer, a poet of chromatic saturation, a sculptor of new icons. Each of his works opens a window onto a parallel world — pop yet profound, seductive yet clear-eyed. A world where digital light becomes substance, and where every face looks back at us like a mirror reflecting our own contradictions.