{"id":1451,"date":"2023-10-12T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:45:20","slug":"marta-besada-paintings-that-tell-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/marta-besada-cuadros-que-cuentan-historias","title":{"rendered":"Marta Besada, paintings that tell stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marta Besada, paintings that tell stories<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Marta opens the doors of her creative world in her home in Madrid.<\/h2>\n\n\n
12 October 2023 by Olga Sala<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Marta Besada is an artist whose paintings transform homes into spaces full of stories and personality. Her work, marked by the influence of the writer Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, is a reflection of her ability to make art the heart of any home. In this interview, he talks about his creative process and how art can transform any space and connect deeply with those who inhabit it.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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She tells us that her house is a reflection of her personality and her love of stories, full of restored furniture and pieces with stories of their own. We hope that, one day (soon), she will have the French marble fireplace she dreams of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Works of art do not have to match the space\".<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tell us about yourself and your work. Where did your vocation start? Any first memories?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

It all stems many years ago from literature and the magical realism of Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez. I always loved reading and writing my own stories, but when I was in high school and I read Gabo for the first time, I was so taken by him that I felt that this is what I wanted to do, to tell stories and let people immerse themselves in my world, making the extraordinary into the everyday and the seemingly insignificant into something unique. I searched for my own language and I found it through art and colour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What do you find most satisfying about your work, and is there anything you are particularly proud of? <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I love my work and I know I could never stop creating. I confess that I have always been obsessed with leaving my mark on the world, and for me, this is the best and most satisfying way, without a doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I am proud of all my works because I never show anything that does not convince me 100%. Each of them has its own image that speaks of its own space and time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some years now, I have been working with fabrics, transforming the idea of space, and not long ago I discovered the philosophy of kintsugi; these two aspects are currently the most exciting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marta Besada in her home-studio in Madrid<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What is your creative process like? What are your sources of inspiration?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

My creative process is my day to day life, helped mostly by reading and film. I read everything because you never know what you're missing, what might pop up around the corner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love French cinema and documentaries about the Second World War. I like to observe, take notes, fill up field notebooks, write down phrases, ideas, conversations, even things that my children tell me and you realise that if you turn it over, it's a very interesting story...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music is fundamental in my studio and the truth is that it is very varied, from Chavela Vargas to Hombres G or classical music, but there is always music in the background.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Favourite colour, book, film and record - in that order! ;D<\/h2>\n\n\n\n