Guillermo Martí Ceballos was born in Barcelona in 1958. Son of landscape-painter Oriol Martí (favourite pupil to Valencia painter Juan Bautista Porcar), while still very young he receives his first lessons on the world of drawing and painting from his father. In 1983 he enters the Escuela Massana of Barcelona taking Graphic Design. He stands out in the subject of drawing and composition and, encouraged by his teacher painter Ramón Noé, intensely devotes himself deep into this subject matter. He does a great number of copies of the great masters of the past (Velazquez, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Vermeer, etc).
In 1986 he is admitted in the Painting Study of artists Boter and Santaló. Thus he consolidates his academic formation and after going through an impressionist stage he comes across pure colours and freedom of expression. He then discovers the colourists, firstly Van Gogh and Gauguin, later the fauvism (Matisse, Derain) and the German expressionism (Macke, Kirchner, etc). His palette gets transformed and the local colour disappears turning into a purer colour.
In 1987 he joins the Cercle Artistic de Sant LLuc and does numerous outdoor as well as female nude studies. Ever since then Martí Ceballos has remained faithful to this discipline that would reward him with a great deal of material for his later studio works.
He takes part in some collective exhibitions (Palau Robert, 1996) and without dropping his illustrator facet he is awarded a number of prizes as poster designer (Festa Major de Gràcia, Arenys de Mar, etc). In 2000 he presents his first individual exhibition in Barcelona (Kreisler Gallery) with a remarkable success in sales and reviews. From then on he has not stopped showing his work at diverse galleries. In 2001 he is awarded the Second Prize for Painting from the Cercle Artistic de Sant LLuc and, in 2004, the First Prize in Drawing at the same arts centre. His work is spread about all over the Spanish geography as well as in such countries as the United States of America, France, Ireland and Austria.
CURRICULUM
1984
Graphic design in the “MASSANA” School of Art (Barcelona)
1987
Enters in the CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC (Barcelona)
1989/1991
Studies in the school of painting ”BOTER SANTALO” (Barcelona)
AWARDS
1986
Chosen for the 25th “PREMI CARTELL de DIBUIX JOAN MIRÓ” (Barcelona)
1996
First prize for poster award for the “FIRA DE LA MADUIXA” of Canet de Mar
1999
First award for the first competition poster “FESTA MAJOR DE GRÀCIA”
2000
First poster award “CARNAVAL ARENYS DE MAR”
2004
First prize for the 25th award for drawing “CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC” (Isidre Nonell Medal)
2005
Second prize for painting “CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC” (Isidre Nonell Medal)
EXHIBITIONS
1996
Collective exhibition in the “PALAU ROBERT” for UNICEF (Barcelona)
2000
Exhibition int the” KREISLER” art Gallery in Barcelona
Exposición in the “ESPLAI” de Sant Pol de Mar
2001
Collective exhibition in the “PARROQUIA S. TERESA”(Barcelona)
Collective exhibition in the ” KREISLER” art Gallery of Barcelona.
Collective exhibition in the “PALAU DEL MAR” (Barcelona)
Collective exhibition in the “ATENEU VILASAREN II BIENAL”
2002
Collective exhibition in the “VILASART DE MAR”
Collective exhibition in the “VILASAR DE D’ALT”
Collective exhibition in the “SANT POL ART”
2003
Exhibition in the “LOLET COMAS” Gallery (Mataró)
Exhibition in the “CONSEJO DE ARTE” Gallery (Barcelona)
Exhibition in the “MAGDALENA BAXERAS” Gallery
2004
Exhibition in the “GONZALO OLIVÁN” Gallery (Sitges)
Collective exhibition in the “CALISAY” (Arenys de Mar)
Collective exhibition in the “VILASAR DE D’ALT”
2005
Collective exhibition in the HIPERMERC’ART
VINÇON GALERIE (BARCELONA)
2006
Exhibition in the “GONZALO OLIVÁN” Gallery (Sitges)
Exhibition “ Tres Generacions” CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar (Barcelona)
Exhibition in the "414KUNSTHAUS" Gallery (Barcelona)
2007
EXIBITION IN THE Centro Médico TECKNON (Barcelona)
Exibition in the ART22 Gallery (Girona)
2008
Collective exhibition in the GALERIE TALENS À SUIVRE (LYON)-FRANCIA)
Exibition in the Galerie CARRÉ D'ARTISTES (Barcelona-Lyon-París Montpellier-Aix en Provençe-Lille-Burdeos)
Exibition CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar(Barcelona)
Exhibition in the 9ª FERIA DE ARTE INDEPENDIENTE (MADRID)
2009
Collective exhibition in the MUSEU PIA ALMOINA (BARCELONA)
Collective Exhibition in the Gallery MONTCADA (Barcelona)
Collective Exhibition in the Societat Cultural i Recreativa Ebusus (IBIZA)
2010
Collective exhibition CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (París)
Collective exhibition CARRÉ D’ARTISTES (Bordeaux)
NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE ADNEC (Emiratos Árabes Unidos -Abu Dhabi)
Exibition CENTRE CULTURAL Sant Pol de Mar(Barcelona)
Collective exhibition Galería Artealtea (Valencia)
MAG'10 MONTREUX ART GALLERY Salon d'art contemporain (Montreux -Swiss)
Collective Exhibition in the Gallery MONTCADA (Barcelona)
2011
Exhibition in the Gallery Art Window (Barcelona)
Exhibition in the Club Nàutic Vilassar (Barcelona)
Exhibition in the "Baladia Restauració" (Argentona - Barcelona)
Various collective exhibitions CERCLE ARTISTIC SANT LLUC (BARCELONA)
Illustrations in different various publications( Congelados “LaSirena”, Myrurgia, Banc Català de Credit, Panama Jack, Prenatal, Santiveri, etc.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1996 UNICEF Art Catalogue 1996
ARTISTI CONTEMPORANEI & QUOTAZIONE 2000
GAL ART 2000
ALFAR Publishing - Cover: "Perlas Australianas y otros relatos"
JV "PERFILES" Publishing - Cover: "Médicos de Bizcaya"
ALFAGUARA Publishing - Cover: "Cuentos de matrimonios"