Eddie Martinez's 'Purple Flopper' at Galerie Max Hetzler Paris

Eddie Martinez presents 'Purple Flopper', his second exhibition with Galerie Max Hetzler and his first at the gallery's Paris space. The show, named after a 2025 painting, features new paintings and sculptures created in 2025. Martinez's practice freely navigates between abstract and figurative motifs, rooted in drawing that crystallizes a long-standing dialogue between spontaneity and reflection. Central to his method is the use of previous works as a living visual archive: he frequently revisits existing paintings and drawings, cutting out fragments to reuse in new compositions. This process ensures that remnants of earlier works remain active contributors to the present, forming a tangible, evolving archive that allows engagement with textures and gestures from his creative history without fixing them in a definitive narrative. Throughout the exhibition, a sense of continuity and transformation is palpable. Drawing remains central, providing both the impulse for new images and a thread linking decades of work. Paintings demonstrate a constant commitment to experimentation, allowing familiar forms to transform, collide, and reappear unexpectedly. In Martinez's hands, motifs become arenas, archives become raw material, and painting becomes a site where intuition, memory, and technique converge. The exhibition runs from May 28 to August 1, 2026.