New works by Antonio Santin can be seen at an exhibition at New York’s Marc Straus Gallery until March 3. His large-scale oil paintings depict richly decorated carpets in life-size. The Madrid artist’s calling card is hyper-realistic paintings, each of which often takes him up to nine months to create. To apply thousands of tiny strokes to the surface, Antonio Santin uses a modified syringe: this technique makes it possible to achieve patterns and weaving that are almost identical to natural products, while thin brush strokes imitate decorative knots and fringes. To make the canvases even more realistic, as a final step the artist applies a black glaze to them, thereby creating shaded areas. Due to this effect and non-standard texture, the author himself calls his works “microsculptural reliefs.”
Photo: David Behringer.
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