Reinaldo Ortega Sardiñas 1977 - XI España - Sueño irracional de Pascal Melsens en la Catedral de San Cristóbal de La Habana

Author: Reinaldo Ortega Sardiñas 1977- XXI Spain
Series: Cocaine for Isabel la Católica (2025-2026) Pop surrealism.
Title: Irrational Dream of Pascal Melsens in the Cathedral of San Cristóbal of Havana - XL format.
Technique: 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.
Unique edition in this format and with this particular composition of characters.
Shipping does not include a frame or wooden stretcher. Tracking will be available via the UPS or FedEx website.

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Reinaldo Ortega Sardiñas

The transgressor of contemporary Pop-Surrealism

My work sits in the uncomfortable territory where historic 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 it. I take canonized figures —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 are 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-off discourses, I propose open images that compel rethinking what once seemed untouchable.

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