Him (El) from 21 Printmakers from Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venzuela)

Santiago CárdenasWW-1972-M055664

1972·Intaglio from a portfolio of ten intaglios, seven screenprints, three lithographs, and one aquatint·composition: 13 3/8 × 19 7/16" (34 × 49.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 22 5/16 × 29 5/8" (56.6 × 75.2 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1972
Medium: Intaglio from a portfolio of ten intaglios, seven screenprints, three lithographs, and one aquatint
Dimensions: composition: 13 3/8 × 19 7/16" (34 × 49.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 22 5/16 × 29 5/8" (56.6 × 75.2 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Santiago Cárdenas

Artist

Santiago Cárdenas

Santiago Cárdenas is a Colombian painter born in 1937 who works in a precise, photorealistic mode centered on still life and architectural interiors. His paintings render objects and spaces with meticulous attention to light, shadow, and surface texture, often employing a narrow tonal palette and frontal composition. Working across several decades of postwar abstraction and conceptualism, Cárdenas has maintained a commitment to observational painting as a rigorous discipline.

Bogotá, Colombia

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