Santi Moix

SANTI MOIX (Barcelona, 1960).
"Tiger head in the forest".
Mixed media on canvas.
Without signature.
Measurements: 129 x 156 cm.

Biomorphism presides over many of Santi Moix's pictorial compositions. On this occasion, a series of bulbous and leathery forms suggest us the idea of a mysterious forest among whose filaments the black head of a panther appears. A deep poetic sense is allied with his playful temperament and naïff spirit.

Based in New York City, Santi Moix lives immersed in an incessant search that drives him to work with an astonishing voracity and creativity. His work, direct and daring, is always a field of search, learning and resolution. A multifaceted creator, Moix also draws and sculpts, but it is in painting where he finds his place of reflection. Although his painting is eminently abstract, Moix has demonstrated on numerous occasions his great capacity for drawing (most recently with his series of works based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). His own language leads him to disturbing and enigmatic creations that sail between abstraction and figuration. The artist assures that, on the other hand, his sculpture drinks from his painting and vice versa, and that they are inseparable, as they are all part of the same journey. His works are like an echo of nature, objects impossible to find in it. Paintings and sculptures that are elements in movement, like labyrinths that branch out to infinity, and provoke a reflection on a fluctuating world dragged along by the fastness and speed that introduces us into a different time, free, vital, overflowing and passionate. One of the artist's recent works has consisted in rehabilitating a Romanesque church of San Víctor, located in the village of Saurí, in Pallars Sobirà, thus including his mark and motifs in it, bringing his painting into a religious building for the first time, although he has carried out similar actions in museums and public spaces. In 2002 he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant.