David Maroto has structured his entire artistic practice around a project called Four Circles. The aim of First Circle is to undermine the established notions of a strong, self-sufficient ego by means of visual, sound and text narratives, deeply rooted in psychoanalysis. As a logical continuation, Second Circle makes use of games and other projects involving a certain kind of participation, in order to open up intersubjective spaces. A full exploration of such spaces and their possibilities will be the subject matter for a future Third Circle. Once he has fulfilled the Four Circles he will have finished his work and, consequently, he will abandon art practice.
David Maroto is a Spanish artist based in The Netherlands. His work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions including S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; ECAT, Toledo, Spain; EFA Project Space, New York; Tina B Festival, Prague, Czech Republic; TENT, Rotterdam and W139, Amsterdam. In 2011 Maroto was an artist in residence at ISCP, New York City. Recently he had a solo show in in Gallery Sign, Groningen (NL). His work based on psychoanalysis research has been exhibited in Freud Dreams Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. His interest in games has led to his art project Disillusion to be publicly presented in a number of game fairs, such as Internationale Spieltage, Essen, Germany. His first artist novel, Illusion, has been published in Spanish recently.
