Santiago Merino

Visual artist. He studied in la Escola Massana Centre d'Art i Disseny in Barcelona, Spain 1992-1994), and in the Art School of La Esmeralda, en Mexico City (1995-1997).
During the last decade, Santiago Merino has developed one of the most innovative art productions in Mexico.

His multiple artistic, technical and aesthetic formal findings unify his work by linking the old traditions of Western painting with the legacies of twentieth-century modern and contemporary painting and the virtual and global circulation of twenty-first century images. His production encompasses more than twenty series and works, an important part of which he has developed by utilizing two principal techniques: the application of plastic materials
such as industrial plastic wrap, and the adaptation of basic mechanical tools, ink markers and small rollers for example, with which he implements pictorial strokes in series.

Today, Santiago's work is simultaneously maturing and expanding in its grand capacity for technical experimentation and aesthetic innovation, as well as in the growing relevance of its processes and topics.