Santi Domínguez - Zebra (XXL)

Artist Santi Domínguez (1967), Mataró (Barcelona).
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My artistic process does not begin with a closed idea or a meticulous sketch, but with an act of surrender to the accident: the stain. For me, the blank canvas is not a space to be mastered, but a stage where pigment and solvent must interact freely. In that spontaneous and chaotic spill, I seek the germ of what will come next.
My work consists of observing that chaos until something speaks to me. It is a conscious pareidolia exercise; I search for latent shapes 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 only color and becomes the carriage of a peacock; or a mass of warm, vibrant tones reorganizes before my eyes until it gives 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 matter makes sense.

Artistic trajectory.
Catalan artist who began painting in 2005 under the guidance of Josep Novellas, who introduced him to the exhibition world. He also attended painting workshops with other artists (Albert Alís, Marta Durán, Alberto Romero…).
In 2007 he held his first exhibition “Genesis,” where a clear figurative tendency could be seen, a tendency that gradually faded to allow him to find his own plastic language. Not neglecting the technical drawing and figurative abilities he enjoyed with sufficient solidity, 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 evolution is entirely evident. The stain marks everything and reality appears in the solid command of the structure and rhythm of the stain, which is at the same time background and form in the overall piece. These beautiful pictorial works endure thanks to the author’s fidelity, faithful to an intimate gaze directed at different breeds, viewed from the perspective of a plasticity of enormous visual scale, where the chromatic situation is more complex.
After Animals, Santi Domínguez dared to translate onto the 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…) 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 “stains” so personal.