Santi Moix

SANTI MOIX (Barcelona, 1960).
"Lemon and nails", 1988.
Mixed media on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner.
Measurements: 75 x 104 cm.
Based in the city of New York, Santi Moix lives immersed in an incessant search that drives him to work voraciously. A multifaceted creator, Moix also draws and sculpts, but it is in painting that he finds his place for reflection. Although his painting is eminently abstract, Moix has on numerous occasions demonstrated 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 us 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 that are impossible to find in it. Santi Moix's work is characterised by accumulation and fragmentation, sensuality and a poetic sense of form in a flat, dense and vital horizontal space. He breaks with the image of continuity, creates digressions that advance and retreat to build, finally, schematic biomorphic structures. 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 lavishness and speed that introduces us to a different, free, vital, overflowing and passionate time. One of the artist's recent works has consisted of rehabilitating a Romanesque church of San Víctor, located in the village of Saurí, in the Pallars Sobirà region, 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 a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.