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KunstKat: an introduction to Santi Dominguez's art.TRANSCRIPT
Santi Domínguez
“The master always teaches what he knows and this is part of my influence, but I see it will berather short. I am very happy to see a brutal geometric evolution”
Josep Novellas
Santi Dominguez is essentially figurative, with a clear tendency toward realism. Soon I surelywill have to say "was" because he is now clearly on his path of change. Although the humanfigure and its reality are still driving his work, that certain obsessive classic perfectionism thatmuch damage him as he did not have, yet, the sufficient expertise to achieve them. Now notehowever that his domain of freedom is governed with his creative concept. Without giving up,because he does not need, the principles of plastic language. Santi Dominguez has reversed theframework, the desire has disappeared for a theoretical perfection, and he is devoted towhat should be fundamental:communicate emotions.
Pere Pascual
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Santi Domínguez, Mataró 1967
Individual Exhibitions2012Great Works, personal view. Espai Capgròs.MataróAnimals. Casa gòtica d’Argentona.Great Works, personal view. Sala PremiArt.Premià de MarAnimals. Sala Port Balís. Sant Vicenç deMontalt.Animals. Sala Centre Cultural. Mataró.Animals. Sala Sant Jaume. Premià de Mar.2011Animals. Sala PremiArt. Premià de MarAnimals. Sala Sant Lluch – Nova Aliança.Mataró2010Animals. Sala PremiArt. Premià de Mar2008Gènesi. Espai Capgròs. Mataró2007Gènesi. Espai Hartmann. Mataró
Collective Exhibitions2012Sant Lluch. Ateneu Caixa Laietana.Sala PremiaArt. Premià de MarSant Lluch, sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana.MataróSala PremiaArt. Premià de Mar
El Buit Sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana. MataróFlamenco Sala Romero Murube Casa de laProvíncia Sevilla2011Sant Lluch, sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana.MataróEls Dimarts del Llimoner, sala PremiaArt.Premià de MarEls Dimarts del Llimoner, sala Tena. Canetde Mar2010Sala PremiaArt. Premià de MarSala Sant Lluch. MataróThe Wedding, sala Tinglado 4. TarragonaSant Lluch, sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana.Mataró10 anys, sala PremiaArt. Premià de MarThe Wedding, sala Municipal dExposicions. Pineda de MarPunts de Llibre, Espai Capgròs. MataróPunts de Llibre, sala Sant Lluch. MataróSala PremiaArt. Premià de MarSala Sant Lluch. Mataró2009Sala PremiaArt. Premià de MarSala Sant Lluch. MataróSant Lluch, sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana.Mataró
Textil Rase. CardedeuThe Wedding, Casa Elizalde. BarcelonaSala Premiart. Premià de Mar2008The Wedding, sala Caixa Laietana. MataróThe Wedding, Saló de Pedra. ArgentonaSant Lluch, sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana.MataróGaleria Lolet. MataróEspai Hartmann. MataróSala Premiart. Premià de MarEngravings. Sala La Presó Mataró2007Cercle Artístic Sant Lluch. BarcelonaSant Lluch, sala Ateneu Caixa Laietana.MataróBufi Planas foundation. Hospital de Mataró
Awards20111st prize. Premià de Mar Art contest.2010Diploma. Premià de Mar Art contest2009Preselected: Torres Garcia Biennial20072nd prize: Premià de Mar Art contest.
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the animals…
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Barrus146x114
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Rhinocerus 161x47
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Crocodylus I, II & III65x49
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Giraffa162x114
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Pavus130x93
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Testudo130x97
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Sardina80x115
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Rhinocerus II162x114
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Nus115x80
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Ranidae100x73
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Panthera Leo97x130
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Pan Troglodytes162x114
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great works, personal views…
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Tandem92x65
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The shootings of the The Third of May 180892x73
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The last Supper162x97
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The creation of Adam162x114
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Mona Lisa65x92
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Arounda Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening73x92cm
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The Meninas81x100
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The Scream60x92
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The young ladies of Avignon81x100
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other works…
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Bailaora97x130
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Emptiness81x100
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Child of the Rings130x162
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Waiter130x162
“Santi Domínguez undertakes a hard work as a big fan, huge painter and much better technical illustrator. Hefocuses his view on the wild life. He addresses this complicated issue, with fervor and with a version of greatscientific value, but written by the eyes of a new vision of great tonal beauty. These beautiful pictorial works aremaintained by the fidelity of their Creator, faithful to a kind of intimate gaze directed at various races such as theelephants, apes, mammalian beasts, reptiles and horses under the tutelage of an extraordinary sketch and wiseapplication of the iridescence is a collection of great power and beauty teaching descriptive. Dominguez isguided by pure heterodoxy attached to a single conviction, which is none other than the plastic creation ofspecies transferred to canvas. These paintings hold the ideological message of respect for wildlife, seenfrom the perspective of visual enormity plasticity, where the situation is more complicated color due to theirbodies and feature different skins. The artist uses his gift, talent and intelligence in these works, and oncecrystallized and completed, submits them to the criticism of specialists, whose rise the study to the superlativedegree of Works of Art. Older people may remember that we formerly used these animal representations for thesole purpose of making it known to an ignorant world. These skills were exotic and only used as educationalmaterial, never as an artistic message in visual creativity. For this reason and in response to his creative needsSanti stands on these exercises and ascends to a preferential and outstanding artistic level. His works are drivenby his strong personality and his skill, by his manner of drawing and possessing knowledge on this subject. Hisstruggle, in an optimistic scenario, serves as a heavy circular tax taking all human actions. Fortunately for loversand animal advocates, Santi Dominguez has the purest ideology that times have changed. We can definitely saythat the technique is perfect and each canvas is bound to its own history under the formalization of a wonderfulcolor system.”
Oliveras, Josep El arte en su máxima expresión Ediciones Ecuador 21: Barcelona 2011
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