The entire story that links Manuel Martinez and his pallet can be found in his tableaus in which the lines retrace a narration of forms and colours. The body, the motif that is used most often in his acrylic paintings, is a pretext for exploring lines and volumes. Drawing on a graphic vocabulary and the street art universe the artist’s canvases or his mural paintings are the expression of a new writing in which he reorganises the symbols. A hand becomes a line of waves, a nose a tube, an eye a circle, the entire composition transforms gradually…