Reinaldo Ortega Sardiñas 1977 - XXI España - Utopía de la Virgen de la Macarena con Toor - formato XL - Pop surrealismo

Author: Reinaldo Ortega Sardiñas 1977 - XXI Spain
Series: Theatres of Democracy (2024-2026)
Title: Utopia of the Virgin of La Macarena with Toor - XL format - Pop Surrealism.
Digital collage printed on canvas, hand-augmented with acrylic paint and varnish.
Dimensions: 66 x 100 cm
Work signed by hand by the artist.
In excellent condition. New.
Unique edition in this format and with this composition of characters.
Shipping does not include frame or wooden stretcher. It will be properly packaged in a sturdy cardboard tube and will have tracking via the UPS or FedEx website.

STATEMENT

Reinaldo Ortega Sardiñas

The transgressor of contemporary Pop-Surrealism

My work situates itself in the uncomfortable territory where historical iconography, symbolic power, and popular culture collide without asking for permission. I work from pop-surrealism as a field of visual sabotage: I desacralize figures, ideologies, and cultural mythologies to reveal their structural fragility.

I am not interested in representing history; I am interested in intervening in it. I take canonized characters —political, religious, cultural— and move them from their pedestal to scenarios where the absurd, the dreamlike, and the ironic destabilize their authority. The image ceases to be reverent and becomes a field of tension.

My language combines appropriation, conceptual collage, painting, and symbolic construction. I use the pop imaginary as a Trojan horse: it seduces first, questions later. The aesthetics is a lure; the intention is critique.

I embrace contradiction as method. My work does not seek consensus or comfort, but friction. In a world saturated with closed discourses, I propose open images that force a rethinking of what seemed untouchable.

I am the transgressor of contemporary pop-surrealism because I do not use surrealism to escape reality, but to dismantle it.