Santi Domínguez - Pavus (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 accident: the blot. 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 search for 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 seek latent forms in the randomness of textures. From that initial blot, I begin to guide the image, intervening with precision so that the blot transforms into something recognizable. Thus, an organic expansion of cobalt blue ceases to be mere color and becomes the porte of a peacock; or a mass of warm, vibrant tones reorganizes before my eyes until giving life to a reinterpretation of The Creation of Adam.
I do not seek merely to illustrate a reality, but to reveal the figure that was already there, hidden in the blot. My works are a constant dialogue between the abstract and the figurative, where animals, spaces, or icons of universal art emerge from the blot to claim their place. In the end, each piece is the result of a resolved tension: the exact moment when 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 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 faded as he found his own plastic language. Not neglecting the technical drawing and figuration skills with which he enjoyed sufficient ease, 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 utterly evident. The blot marks everything, and reality appears in the solid mastery of the structure and rhythm of the blot, which is at once background and form in the whole piece. These beautiful pictorial works endure thanks to the author’s fidelity, faithful to a kind of intimate gaze directed at different breeds, seen from the perspective of a plasticity of enormous visual scope, 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 “blots.”