𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢
Exposição a solo de @malarko
📅 𝗦𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗮-𝗳𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮, 𝟮𝟵 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗼
📍@circusnetwork
A nova série de trabalhos de Mark Malarko nasce de um encontro inesperado. Durante uma estadia em Barcelona, o artista encontrou uma pilha de bandas desenhadas descartadas numa fábrica abandonada. A intensidade gráfica, o ritmo e as cores dessas imagens tornaram-se o ponto de partida para um conjunto de pinturas onde fragmentos são traduzidos, deslocados e reinventados.
Mais do que reproduções, estas obras funcionam como ecos — abstrações de formas, gestos e paletas que transitam da impressão para a pintura, da narrativa para a superfície. Trabalhando sobretudo com tinta de parede sobre tela, Malarko constrói composições através de camadas, edição e resposta intuitiva, deixando o material original dissolver-se em novas possibilidades visuais.
“SUPER SECUESTRO” explora a transformação das imagens ao longo do tempo e a forma como a cultura visual local pode ser reativada e projetada para o futuro.
🇬🇧 SUPER SECUESTRO
Solo exhibition by Mark Malarko
Opening Friday, May 29 at Circus Network
This new body of work by Mark Malarko began with a chance encounter. While working in Barcelona, the artist discovered a pile of discarded comics in a nearby abandoned factory. Drawn to their graphic intensity, rhythm, and colour, he began translating fragments of these images into painting.
Rather than direct reproductions, the works become abstractions — echoes of forms, gestures, and palettes carried over from the original material. Through this process, imagery shifts from print to paint, from narrative to surface. Working primarily with house paint on canvas, Malarko builds each painting through layering, editing, and physical response, allowing the source material to dissolve into something more open-ended.
“SUPER SECUESTRO” reflects on transformation and the persistence of images over time, reactivating fragments of local visual culture as a way of moving them forward.
29.05.2026 — save the date.
Opening tonight!! 'Ploc Ploc Blompf!', the new solo show from @malarko showing off his new body of work, inspired by a pile of discarded comics found in a factory in Barcelona ✨️
Looking forward to seeing you all tonight! 6-9pm as usual!
#markmalarko #bsmtspace #plocplocblompf
This weekend we reunite w/@malarko@entresalasbcn to share some new bits and bobs! I met Mark years back when he painted the shutters of our old store (see last slide) ✨
Aquest dissabte acollim Jumbo Press i Malarko per a una trobada molt especial inspirada en la màgia caòtica dels Encants.
Portaran peces de la seva col·lecció d’objectes trobats, joguines, tresors i obra pròpia. Una caça del tresor desendreçada entre goobers oblidats del passat i el resultat de com aquests objectes han influït en el seu art del present.
També celebrarem el llançament del nostre nou llibre en risografia, un arxiu imprès d’aquests objectes col·leccionats. Una referència, una col·lecció i una reflexió sobre la bellesa dels objectes lúdics i sovint passats per alt.
Us convidem a venir a Entre Salas per reconnectar amb el vostre nen interior, i deixar-vos portar per una mica de bogeria plegats.
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This Saturday, we’re hosting Jumbo Press and Malarko for a very special gathering inspired by the chaotic magic of Els Encants.
They’ll be bringing pieces from their collection of found objects, toys, curious treasures, and work. A mishmash treasure hunt through forgotten goobers from the past and the result of their influenced in their art of the present.
We’ll also be celebrating the launch of our new riso book, a printed archive of these collected objects. A reference, collection and reflection on the beauty of playful, overlooked items.
Join us at Entre Salas to reconnect with your inner child, embrace the joy of play, and be a little silly together.
SHOW INCOMING! You’ll never run out of reasons to visit @bsmtspace . @malarko is in London for his new show PLOC PLOC BLOMPF! opening Thursday 14 May, 6pm! BE THERE 🤘
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It started with a pile of discarded comics found in a Barcelona factory. Malarko picked up the thread and ran with it, not to preserve the images, but to set them back in motion. He let the colour and rhythm of the source material bleed through while the narrative dissolved away.
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What’s left sits somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Familiar, but strange.
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It’s a good one. Get it in the diary.
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#malarko #bsmtspace #bsmt #londonart
LONDON- we like to keep you on your toes! So this is happening NEXT WEEK, the man @malarko is winging his way over from BCN with a fresh new show!
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OPENING MAY 14th 6PM- it’s a good one, put it in the diary, feel good factor guaranteed!
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A pile of discarded comics in a factory in Barcelona. A chance find that becomes the starting point for an entire body of work. Mark Malarko returns to BSMT Gallery with ‘PLOC PLOC BLOMPF!’, a new series of paintings that began with a coincidence and ended somewhere far more considered.
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The works carry the colour, rhythm, and graphic intensity of their source material, but they are not reproductions. They are translations. Fragments absorbed, abstracted, and rebuilt through paint, letting the original imagery
dissolve into something far more loose and open.
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‘PLOC PLOC BLOMPF!’ is about circularity. The comics Malarko encountered were conceived, produced, and later abandoned in the same neighbourhood in Barcelona where he found them years later. This is an exhibition about
the past and present folding in on each other. These are not images rescued from obscurity, they are images set in motion again in an entirely new context.
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Working with house paint on canvas, Malarko keeps the process direct and physical, no fuss. Malarko edits and responds, letting the source imagery dissolve until what’s left isn’t quite representation and isn’t quite abstraction. It’s
somewhere in between. The colour and form from the original comics carry over but the narrative falls away, leaving something that sits between figuration and abstraction- very familiar but at the same time strange.
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The result is a collection of paintings that asks how images persist, how they shift and accumulate different meanings over time and resurface in new forms. Malarko reactivates fragments of a local visual culture not as an act
of preservation, but as a way of natural continuation.
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#malarko #bsmt #bsmtspace #comicabstract
