Frutos María Martínez

Frutos María Martínez (born 21 January 1949) is a Spanish Sculpture and Painting. He lives and works in Alicante, Spain. 
== Biography ==
Frutos María Martínez was born in Hontoria de Valdearados, in the province of Burgos, Spain. He began sculpting and painting from an early age, building his own toys and gimmicks, thus showcasing an artisting inclination and interest in manual tasks. 
At the age of 10, he began selling his creations and decorative objects in his immediate circle. Later, at the age of 15 he became a student at the "La Sindical", a trade school in Aranda de Duero where he specializes in "Industrial Mastery" with emphasis on metallurgy. 
In 1985, at the age of 36, Frutos moved with his family to Alicante, Valencia and meets Juan Guardiola Gaya, an architect and plastic artist who became his mentor. Guardiola Gaya introduced Frutos to the circle of artists, galleries and exhibitions of Alicante. 
Frutos currently resides in Alicante with his wife Ana and three children, Miguel, Paula and Julián.
== Work ==
The artistic style and trajectory of Frutos María Martínez is marked by an environmental concern with a focus on the pollution and damage caused by discarded garbage in the ecosystems of the seas and oceans. This concern drives Frutos to collect materials such as wood, iron, stone, lead, cork, resins, sand and natural pigments from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, which he uses to create his works. He made his first collective exhibition in 2008, and since then he has carried out numerous collective and individual exhibitions, working with both sculpture and painting.
== Exhibits (Selected) ==
=== Solo Exhibitions ===
Year 	Title 	Place 	Location
2011 	“Hatching of form” 	INFORMACIÓN Club 	Alicante
2013 	“Hatching of form II” 	Former Chapell of the Franciscan Venerable Third Order	Elche (Alicante)
2013 	“Hatching of form III”	Cultura Frax Foundation 	Albir (Alicante)
2014 	“Hatching of form IV” 	Cultural Centre Jaume i Fluixà 	Calpe (Alicante)
2015 	“Hatching of form V” 	Cultural Centre of San Juan 	San Juan (Alicante)
2015 	“Hatching of form VI” 	D. Pedro la Barbera Salon 	Villajoyosa (Alicante)
2015 	“Shapes and strength” 	Arena Gymnasium 	Alicante
2016 	"Painted Architecture"	Museum of Mar y Castillo Fortaleza 	Santa Pola (Alicante)
2016 	“Part of my life" 	Provincial Council of Alicante 	Alicante
2016 	"Renewal of nature" 	Foundation Caja Mediterráneo 	Orihuela (Alicante)
2017 	"New life" 	Santa Pola Cape 	Alicante
2018 	“JANO” 	Esplanade of the Alicante Museum 	Alicante
2019 	“Migrations” 	San Lorenzo del Escorial 	Madrid
2019 	“Sea of wood” 	Santa Bárbara Castle 	Alicante
2020 	“Steel and sea wrecks”	Museum of the University of Alicante 	Alicante
2021 	"Motivation" 	«Eduardo Chicharro» Showroom 	Madrid
Permanent Display	"Nature hatching" 	FUNDESEM Business School 	Alicante
=== Collective Exhibitions ===
Year	Title 	Place 	Location
2008	“A tres” 	Culture Centre of Busot 	Busot (Alicante)
2010	“Exhibition of the work of Ko Kwinkelenberg and Frutos María”	- 	Las huertas cape (Alicante)
2015	“The form for the form” 	Cultura Frax Foundation 	Albir (Alicante)
2019	“Open Geometries” 	Official College of Surveyors and Technical Architects of Madrid	Madrid
2019	"Galaxy Space" 	Fernández de los Ríos 93 	Madrid
2021	"More life, more road (Covid-19)" - Salvador Dalí Exhibit 	Santana Art Gallery 	Madrid
2021	"Festiarte" - III International Art Fair 	Costa del Sol 	Avenida del Mar, Marbella
2021	Collective Exhibition 	Espacio Cultural Abierto 	Madrid
Category:1949 births
Category:Spanish people
Category:Spanish sculptors
Category:Spanish painters