Bio
MARCOS VIDAL FONT, 1967, Vitoria-Gasteiz (E)
Marcos Vidal Font is an unorthodox sculptor. Inspired at the beginning by a Dadaist practice, his work develops and materializes in a critical dialogue with objects, very often as furniture pieces. Vidal experiments with the location of his creations in the exhibition space and in the public space, creating specific works for specific contexts. His work materials are wood and ceramics to which he sometimes incorporates objects from different origins creating pieces that show a fusion of imaginary objects. He also developed a walk system to find objects and to transfer them to artistic pieces. Keeping the memory of some areas, developing a kind of psicolandscapes or psicomaps. He lives and works in Mallorca.
Graduated at the San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts in the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain in 1991, graphic art speciality, and graduated at the University Autónoma Coahuila in Mexico 2019, where he was invited as guest teacher. He also was the Director of CAC Creation Art Center of Palma Town Hall, Mallorca in 2022.
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at: Roberto Matta Center, Santiago de Chile; Marratxi town hall art center, Mallorca; Antonia Puyó Gallery, Zaragoza; Casal Solleric, Town Hall art space, Palma de Mallorca; Hilvaria Studios, Foundation, The Netherlands; CCA Andratx, Mallorca; Insel Hombroich Foundation, Germany.
He has participated in international events as the 2nd and 3rd BIAB Beijing International Art Biennale, China; 2nd Mediterranean Biennial, Dubrovnik, Croatia; Busan International Print Art Festival de Corea; IEEB 4 International Experimental Engraving Biennial a Bucarest; SEA International Sculpture Symposium of Alicante; Identity art meeting, Dordrecht Skills, Dordrecht Town Hall, The Netherlands; Cerco 2019 in Zaragoza; La Journee de l’Estampe, Paris; European Biennale Blancs Manteaux 2023, Paris.
International Art fairs; Estampa 97 at Madrid; KIAF'07, KIAF'08 and KIAF'09 at Seoul; Chicago Next Art Fair; SWAB 2012 in Barcelona; Supermarket art fair 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015 in Stockholm; Art Suomi in Helsinki, Art Athina and Platform Projects 2019, Athens, Greece.
Residences; Kunstlerdorf Neumarkt den Raab, Austria; Experimental Atelier and Portocarrero Atelier in Havanna; Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium; Starke Foundation Berlin; Malongen Nytorget in Stockholm; Lichtemberg Studios in Berlin; Insel Hombroich Foundation in Germany; CRIDA in Palma de Mallorca; MuseoGrabado Museo Felguerez in Zacatecas, Mexico; V54 Po Leung Kok Foundation in Hong Kong; ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin.
His work is in institutional collections as; Mallorca Council; Juan Gil Albert culture institute, Diputación de Alicante; the Town Hall of Alicante; the Faculty of Fine Arts San Carlos of Valencia; the National Library, Madrid; Joan Miró Foundation, Mallorca, Spain; the Experimental Graphic Workshop, and the René Portocarrero Workshop, Havana, Cuba; the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium; the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium; the Majdanek Museum, Lublin, Poland; Saltillo Museum of Graphic Arts, Mexico; the Insel Hombroich Foundation, Neuss, Germany; China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China.
He coordinates the initiative Espai Sant Marc, artist in residence and graphic art atelier. Its the platform where he developed several projects and group exhibition projects in different cultural centers and independent art festivals in Spain; Lacasadelcactus, Mallorca; Incart, Mallorca; Casa Planas, Mallorca; Pronostica, Mahon, Menorca; Drapart, Barcelona. And outside of Spain; Water Tower art fest in Sofia; the Process Space Festival in Bulgaria; the Saltillo Contemporary Festival in Coahuila, Mexico; Art en ciel, Tadlachance, Cuges les Pins, France. Invited initiatives from abroad and exchanges with; MUU, Finland; Lichtemberg Studios, Berlin, Germany; Rankka Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Dordrecht Skills, Dordrecht, The Netherlands; Tempo Arts, Hastings, UK; Les 4 Arts, Paris Centre, France.