Episode 4: Ricardo Santos (Mexico)

10/31/19 • 78 min

Plastic artist based in Mexico City. His work covers multiple disciplines, such as digital graphics, painting, drawing and sculpture, but he is especially dedicated to exploring drawing, experimenting with different materials, supports, processes and aesthetic and formal solutions. His work shows a clear obsession to structure the anatomy of animals and people as if it were a functional and harmonious architectural space. His paintings are a mental logbook, usually based on portraits inspired by personal, social situations, the study of anatomy, as well as the identity, borders, roots and belonging of people with spaces, structuring the strokes as if they were gears that build a larger machinery, building true visual maps with the image of the bodies.

Ricardo Santos is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (2002-2007). His work has been exhibited in exhibition and outreach spaces such as Affordable Art Fair Mexico, Gallery Weekend, Roma-Condesa Cultural Corridor. Currently working with the artist Pierre Fudarylí in the joint project #noesunagaleria that currently has two editions # noesunagalería and # noesunagalería: Catalog of existence, which seeks the exhibition, and circulation of the work itself as well as other artists to national and international level independently. Throughout his career he has made 5 individual exhibitions and around 30 collective exhibitions in museums, galleries and cultural centers of different parts of the Republic such as the Museum of Modern Art of the CDMX, FranzMayer Museum, Round House Museum, Desert Museum , Barre Land Art, Intersection Contemporary art, Crocodile art editions, the Italian Institute of Culture among others. His work has been disseminated through print and digital media such as Cultura Colectiva, Forbes and Architectural Digest.

www.noesunagaleria.com

@ricardosaga

www.noesunagaleria.com

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Episode 3: Santiago Pani (Netherlands)

My interests range from the smallness of the entomological world to the grandiosity of the cosmos.

The themes that are recurrent in my work are insects, celestial bodies and portraits; the later becoming the spectators and metaphorical meeting point between the other two worlds.

Recently I have focused on the portrait series “Personal Universe”, which is inspired by anonymous characters and memories of people stored in our subconscious throughout our lives and the idea that sometimes while awake and other times during our dreams, these anonymous visitors will be recalled by our minds to interact and influence our story once again. Lately I have found myself very connected to this concepts and ideas, which makes the production of these pieces be very organic and visceral.

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Santiago Pani (1990) Mexico City. Lives and works in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Grew up in Tequisquiapan, a small village two hours away from Mexico City, where his dad, Knut Pani, is an established Artist.
Santiago grew up surrounded by artists and becoming one was always in his plans.
He studied art at the school ENPEG (Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado) better known as La Esmeralda, in México City.
Since very early in his career Santiago had a clear idea of what he wanted to accomplish; Transcending and being recognized has always been in his mind (something that most artists have) so he has been constantly searching for a pictorial language which can be recognized as his own.

https://www.mymindbysantiagopani.com

@santiagopani

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Episode 5: Daniel Martin (Netherlands)

In this episode, I sit down with painter/sculptor Daniel Martin at the Arthouse Holland/Project 1606 Residency house to discuss his beginnings in art, philosophy and practice. It was the last day of the 4 week residency and a perfect way to wrap things up.

Daniel (1982) lives and works in Leiden, the Netherlands. In his current work he searches for the transmutational properties of matter. The portraits and sculptures do not have a definite form and posses different realities on how they can be perceived. In order to come to new forms Daniel cuts up paintings, finds things on the street and uses creations made by others. The loose elements from these endeavours are used as disjointed brushstrokes that are reassembled in coherent shapes again, creating an object which holds no truth in shape.

His work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include, the national museum of revolution, Cuba; Duo Phillip Akkerman, Sis Josip Gallery, Den Haag; Havana Biënnale (collaboration with Karang (Karina Alonso); Forma prima, El pez soluble Gallery, Mexico; Bloom, Booth Gallery, New York.

http://www.danielmartin.nl

@daniel_martin_art