...Venezuelan-born painter Cipriano Martinez joined Studio 8 six months ago, and has found it easy to slot in. He originally trained as a civil engineer in Venezuela, then took a fine art degree there, and did his MA at Chelsea College of Arts and Design in London.
His latest body of work, Pixelations, will be shown at the Sala Mendoza gallery in his home city of Caracas in August; the gallery regularly shows his work. The paintings are strongly structured, with hundreds of abutting squares and rectangles painted in vivid primary pigments, which put me in mind of Gerhard Richter’s recent Serpentine show...