Gene Paul Martin : Do You Do It? Or Does It Do You?

The popular Filipino artist, Gene Paul Martin, was born in Manila in 1989. He has a unique perspective of young artists, with bold and rich color and unscrupulous visual content, injecting a vitality into the flat paintings that contemporary art is considered to be slightly boring, achieving a unique style. The universally defined visual effect is a frustrating product for Martin, who appears around us every day, but only creates static noise. Through Martin's work, let us leave the original logical framework. This is an unpredictable but enjoyable change that comfortably breaks the barriers of common aesthetic definition. His work revolves around his reflection on the overall environment, analyzing and recreating it in a third-person perspective.

His “new creatures” has no background in life, lacking of the past and no future, making them being the perfect companion for Martin’s "isolation." From his paintings, Martin tries to let the viewers get rid of the complicated things around them, escape from the unimportant details of daily life, and re-read his works with neutrality and objectivity. However, the interaction between the work and the audience is personal. The beauty of his work is that these outsiders, either neutral or isolated, have made his story version completely different from the audience. This is the way that Martin has always believed in getting rid of human interaction and practicing a formal or spiritual independence.