Santi Domínguez - Copa de vi (XL)

Artist Santi Domínguez (1967), Mataró (Barcelona).
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My artistic process does not begin with a fixed idea or with a meticulous sketch, but with an act of surrender to accident: the stain. For me, the blank canvas is not a space to be dominated, but a stage where pigment and solvent must interact freely. In that spontaneous and chaotic spill, I seek the germ of what will come after.
My work consists of observing that chaos until something speaks to me. It is a conscious pareidolia exercise; I seek latent forms in the randomness of textures. From that initial stain, I begin to guide the image, intervening with precision so that the stain transforms into something recognizable. Thus, an organic expansion of cobalt blue ceases to be just color and becomes the bearing of a peacock; or a mass of warm and vibrant tones reorganizes before my eyes until giving life to a reinterpretation of The Creation of Adam.
I do not seek simply to illustrate a reality, but to reveal the figure that was already there, hidden in the stain. My works are a constant dialogue between the abstract and the figurative, where animals, spaces, or icons of universal art emerge from the stain to claim their place. In the end, each piece is the result of a resolved tension: the exact moment when the accident yields to intention and the matter makes sense.

Artistic career.
Catalan artist who began painting in 2005 under the guidance of artist Josep Novellas, who introduced him to the world of exhibitions. He also attended painting workshops with other artists (Albert Alís, Marta Durán, Alberto Romero, etc.).
In 2007 he held his first exhibition “Genesis,” where a clear figurative tendency was visible, a tendency that gradually faded to allow him to find his own plastic language. Not downplaying the technical abilities of drawing and figuration that he enjoyed with sufficient solvency, Santi Domínguez understood the need to capture things not as they were but as he saw them.
Thus he created the series Animals in which the evolution is altogether obvious. The stain marks everything and reality appears in the solid command of the structure and the rhythm of the stain, which is at once background and form in the piece as a whole. These beautiful pictorial works endure thanks to the fidelity of their Author, faithful to a type of intimate gaze directed at different kinds, seen from the perspective of a plasticity of enormous visual magnitude, where the chromatic situation is more complex.
After the Animals, Santi Domínguez dared to translate onto canvas his personal vision of great works of painting, such as The Creation of Adam, the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Las Meninas, etc.
These series and others created later (50x50, Bon Profit, etc.) have allowed him to exhibit in different cities such as Barcelona, Seville, Mataró, Reus, Sitges, Tarragona, etc.
Technically he uses oil paint, acrylic and ink, mixing them to create these so personal “stains.”