Réplicas by Santiago Merino: at Project Room

At the Proyect Room, Santiago Merino presents “Réplicas”, an exhibition made up of works from his most recent investigation in which he approaches painting from three specific actions: propagate, expand and replicate. It is an unusual pictorial process that continues the explorations that the artist has extensively developed around the act of creating, or more precisely, recreating, recomposing and reflecting on what we indistinctly call painting by convention.

Merino's exercise is concrete, he shuns metaphors and appeals to seemingly simple acts that involve questions and crucial statements for pictorial practice in contemporary art, such as the relationship between original and copy, or even more so, when the replica becomes original; that is, when the action of reproducing the same gesture is from its origin a creative act.