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Santiago Cardenas 60 PT P 97 P 95 was spotlighted by the Artnet Gallery Network in an article titled "Spotlight: Colombian Artist Santiago Cárdenas’s Still Lifes Mix Minimalism With Dutch Golden Age Tropes."
Cardenas' exhibition Santiago Cárdenas: Illusionisms is currently on view at the Art of the World Gallery in Houston until October 15, 2022.
From the Artnet Gallery Network:
Featuring pieces from the 1990s through the 2010s, the exhibition reveals insights into the artist’s subtly evolving practice. Included in the exhibition are a number of Cárdenas’s influential trompe-l’oeil chalkboard paintings from the 1990s. Made on canvas or even cardboard, these paintings convincingly appear as classroom blackboards in various states of erasure and engage the eye in a tangle of illusion that harkens back to Dutch Golden Age games of artistic trickery meant to evoke pleasure in the unexpected. The artist’s more recent still lifes present the centuries-old arrangement of jugs, fruits, and flowers in realistic detail against flattened, abstract backgrounds, creating tension between the composition’s two planes, and are reminiscent of Giorgio Morandi. Cárdenas is regarded as one of the most influential living artists in Latin America today, and this well-curated exhibition offers a smart and engaging introduction to his work for a new audience.
