Santiago Cardenas

Everything in the fascinating work of Santiago Cárdenas escapes preconception because everything in its evolution is new. It is not only about its fruitful confluence between the classic and the modern, nor about its unparalleled technical perfection, evident in the making of each painting, but about the obsessive effort to break down color and light to reinvent objects and the human figure through starting from a simple evocation, a fleeting reflection, which produces – as in a game of illusion – the inevitable magnetization of the viewer. The work of Santiago Cárdenas, exalted and acquired by the most respectable institutions of the contemporary plastic world, constitutes a poetic and innovative pictorial order, which immerses us both in the realm of the trivial and the profound.