Exhibitions
‘Mermaid kiss’ Exhibition
AM Gallery. Roquetas de Mar (Almería), Spain. March 4th – May 6th, 2012.
Putting your head under the water. The whole body. And just listening to the sea, which embraces you. All at the top, on the surface, is very far. Down here, there is another world. A silence that overwhelms you. It is your happines, scape time, anything can happen. Even a mermaid can pass by and kiss you.
The constant theme in my work is the search for happy moments in life. The scenarios change. Clubs, the night, the trips, the sea, the harbours; but the objective keeps the same: to capture that magic instant when one blows their lungs up, takes a deep breath and, while leaving it scape, feels that life is wonderful.
‘Say yes…’ Exhibition
Acuadros Gallery. Madrid, Spain. Noviembre 4th – 26th, 2011.
Great stories arise from the magic of the encounters. Told with brush strokes by Marina Anaya, they remind us that we all are passers-by looking for happiness. If we walk into it, we must take care of it so that it can grow. Only when happiness takes root in our hearts, it will keep alive. – Lidia Martín Araujo (Journalist)
Some works of the exhibition
‘Marina Anaya: Painting-Print-Sculpture’ Itinerant Exhibition
Culture Room of Caja España – Caja Duero. Valladolid, Spain. November 3rd – 30th, 2011.
Culture Room of Caja España – Caja Duero. Palencia, Spain. December 21st – January 15th, 2012.
Santa Nonia Room of Caja España – Caja Duero. León, Spain. February 8th – 28th, 2012.
Exhibition organized by “Caja España – Caja Duero”, travelling around different provinces of Castilla y León. Marina Anaya presents a wide variety of woks from the last years in the three disciplines she performs: painting, print and sculpture.
‘And you came’ Exhibition
Santa Catalina Castle and Benot Gallery. Cádiz, Spain. July 28th – October 23rd, 2011.
“And you came” up to here. Up to this folder – catalogue of works of art. Handcrafted, done with care, with no hurry, like this exhibition is born: in a holiday. During her rest, the plastic artist Marina Anaya continued creating. She did it without the pressure of the delivery, letting herself go in more and more notebooks of sketches.
It began in Menorca. A destination that might turn out to be written in some of her works. The landscape of this island came in and flooded her drawings. The greens appeared, and so did the marine waters, the mermaids and, for the first time, the trees. The vegetation grew and the wind blew with a new air. And this way, almost without realizing it, she had the perfect trip in her canvas: days of sea and sun and nights of clubs and cabarets.
The days went by between hugs, kisses, looks, birds flying, hairs flowing in the wind and freeing to dance… The drowings came between holidays, laughs, naps, farewells and passers-by who pass each other and meet. And the magic arose from some of those encounters. People longing for seeing and touching each oher, their arms with impossible postures so as to reach the caress. Because love grows, literally, in her paintings. The trees take root in the hearts of characters who keep the freshness of the first line. They are imperfect figures who, put away in a suitcase, continued their adventure in Madrid and Cádiz, cities where the artist has her workshop. The end of a tour and the beginning of their lives.
Now, before this notebook of trips, one can decide a destination. One can play with the cards, put them in order, out of order, give them as a present, exchange them. One can collect them and discover new routes. Every print, every sketch, painting and sculpture, every card is a peephole that lets us discover the process of creation of this artist. The reflection of a stage that started during a trip and now ends in your hands. A bite of the banquet that waits for us. The most complete exhibition by Marina Anaya. – Lidia Martin Araujo (Journalist)
‘Haikus’ Itinerant Exhibition
Taller con Tinta Roja Workshop. September, 2010. Collective exhibition.
Collective exhibition organized by TALLER CON TINTA ROJA, in which different artists illustrate a Haiku. Málaga, September 2010.
“The autumn wind
moves the bamboo blind
and my heart” – Hattori Ranseten
‘Gimlet Bar’ Exhibition
EV Gallery. Shangai, China. September 20th – October 26th, 2008.
Gimlet: in a cocktail mixer put 7 or 8 ice cubes, shake well to chill the mixer. Remove the excess of water. Add 2.5 cl of fresh lime juice and 2.5 cl of gin. Shake well and pour into a cocktail glass.
Open the door and let yourselves inside. Tonight is your night. Forget about everything, leave all frustration and disenchantment behind. We are at Gimlet Bar. Tonight is a night to dream while awake.
Gimlet Bar, an exhibition by Marina Anaya featuring painting, sculpture, and printmaking, brings us the warmth and cosiness of live music clubs and cocktail bars with Chinese lanterns, wallpapered walls, and a small stage as the main witnesses of a night that is always just about to start.
The delicate use of colors with red as its main emblem throughout all her work, carefree drawings that outline the profile of the characters, impossible proportions, unreal movements, and an omnipresent happy melancholy, all give shape to this exhibition.
Singers, musicians, barmen, bar girls in this bewitched hour during which time stops, the past, forgotten for a while, makes way to an uncertain future, passion perspires from the pores, and darkness becomes an accomplice.
This singer, out of repertoire, performs her last song for herself and for that man who smokes slowly and stares at her from the table, not expecting more than making that moment last forever. The bar, shelter for the open souls from the darkness of the night, is about to close, the barman prepares a gimlet which he will share with that delicious girl who has been staring at him all night long from the counter.
It is a night to feel, to live, to dream. Everyone hides other lives, different stories, private ones, but here and in the fleetingness of this moment, time stops and anything, just anything can happen.