A catalogue will be launched at the opening: 32 pages, 21 x 21 cm, full color, softcover, limited edition print, #6 of the "edition heliumcowboy".

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The aesthetic tradition of Antonio Santín is the Spanish Baroque, including his interest for the “sacred”, an interest derived from his religious upbringing, but also from his sculpting practices inspired by Andalusian imagery. The ideas of sacrifice, death, tales and symbolism are inherent in this imagery and, thereby, in Santín’s work. His use of violent contrast between figure and background is, in a way, also a reference for his passion for baroque aesthetics, but more so for his obsession with contrasting darkness and light, death and life.

Antonio Santín’s work is, after all, reflexive, sometimes even political: for instance in his representations of the “neutral death” or the symbolic vision of the “dead oppressor” in the tradition of Orwell’s narrative, although toned down by means of sardonic pessimism, or irony. His art is aggressive and influenced by the monumentality of the format, by the intensity of darkness. Obscurity beclouds the light surfaces, a net of dripping paint evokes a melancholic atmosphere. And so Santín’s paintings are torn between the specifications of the real models and the venture of abstraction.

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