Manuel Martí Moreno, born in Valencia (Spain) in 1979, is a contemporary sculptor trained in fine arts at the faculties of Valencia, Seville, and Madrid.
Since the 2000s, his sculptures have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid and the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia. His work has also been showcased in cities such as Munich, Chicago, Miami, Venice, Barcelona, and Saint-Tropez.
In his series LA FUGACIDAD DE LA EXISTENCIA (The Fleetingness of Existence), initiated in 2010, Manuel Martí Moreno materializes unfinished volumes representing human figures, animals, landscapes, or abstract forms.
Created from welded metallic elements, his sculptures evoke a shell or mesh that appears almost immaterial, ethereal, and fleeting. Far from the traditional sculptural techniques using stone, marble, bronze, or terracotta—solid, compact, and closed materials—the artist offers an almost dematerialized vision of sculptural art.
Although resistant and stable, his works embody the ideas of fluctuation, change, static movement, and, above all, emptiness—a central theme in his art:
“Understanding that the material reality common to all beings, both living and inanimate, is invisible to the senses leads me to create sculptures where matter is minimal, and the void surrounding and containing them is absolute. In other words, the void, a primordial element shared by all matter in the universe—and therefore by each of us—is the very essence of everything (…) Contrary to the solidity we believe we perceive through our senses, we are, in reality, millions of floating particles in constant motion and transformation.”
Through his sculptures, Manuel Martí Moreno invites the viewer to deeply reflect on the nature of existence, balancing materiality and immateriality. He reminds us that what is invisible, intangible, or ephemeral is, in fact, the very essence of our world. His work is resolutely contemporary, positioned at the crossroads of poetry, science, and philosophy.