Adam Martinakis. The Symbol of Existence

One would have trouble spotting in Adam Martinakis’ artworks anything other than human bodies: intertwining and amalgamating, they spill into each other and dissect one another, falling into pieces and dissolving in space. Here, frozen motion acts as a means of expression just like in dance, while the faceless body becomes the symbol of life itself.

Adam views the body as a kind of basic unit. ‘I study the human relations and behaviour, the causes of actions and the aftermath, trying to depict the past and the future in a concentrated present in pause,’ explains the artist. ‘When the time has lost its nature, the actors play in a non-existing timeless space. I am magnetized by the space, the big endless space where everything flows in.’ For Martinakis, space turns into the perpetual dwelling between point A and point B. In this place of zero gravity, bodies are in a state of permanent transformation.

Drawing the objects into mutual focus, the artist does not encourage us to interact with them. His art becomes a bridge linking spirit and matter, the animate and the absent, the individual and the universal. Restricting himself to a minimal cast of characters, Adam Martinakis prompts the viewer to concentrate on what really matters: the vital vibrations pervading his works. This affords us the opportunity to metaphysically experience the void that the artist himself perceives as the true space.