- Exhibition program
- Cycle:Something for Everyone
- Artist
- Santiago Mayo
- Dates
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- Curated by
- Mònica Regàs, Ferran Barenblit i Frederic Montornès
Santiago Mayo, born in Tal (La Coruña) in 1965, has had solo exhibitions in several Spanish galleries and institutions, including the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela and the Galería Magda Belloti in Madrid. He has also participated in recent editions of ARCO and in various group shows.
Mayo works both on flat surfaces and in three dimensions, but always with a painter’s eye. This is why he never places his pieces directly on the floor. He uses the exhibition space as if it were a stage, trying to establish a rapport between his works and the viewer. Perhaps the most outstanding feature of his art is precisely the small size of the pieces, something which is unusual in present-day contemporary art but which furthers his aim of making the viewer come close up to the works in order to observe the details of the surface texture.
In the Espai 13, Mayo has arranged the pieces at different heights so as to reflect the different levels of the exhibition room and emphasise the fact that it is an underground space.
The show consists of 15 miscellaneous pieces from different periods and in different materials. Older items such as Hermes (dervish), hanging from the roof and marking the upper level, are combined with recent works made of wire and placed on the walls or on small plinths on the floor. He will also be showing monochrome and two-colour landscapes, which in some cases are reworkings of previous paintings. None of these items exceeds 30 cm and all could stand on the palm of one’s hand.
