Santiago Talavera

Albacete, 1979

The central axis of Santiago Talavera’s work is the reflection on the human condition through the investigation of landscape and its symbolic, narrative, and spatial possibilities. The absence of the human being in his works, in combination with an intimate and absurd atmosphere in which past and future seem to intermingle, accentuates the need to think about the place we occupy, rather than as mere observers.

More about the artist

Through drawing, painting or video, Santiago Talavera prefigures and reconstructs space by investigating the imaginative possibilities of nature. His scenes seem to form a fragmented story where the newly occurring and the imminent open paths to speculation, and in which conflicts arising from the relationship between culture and nature are filtered.

In this direction, his work leaves traces of a landscape permeable to openly political issues of a collective nature that transcend personal domains. Hauntopolis, his current project that will be released in 2020, recovers the utopian tradition in a personal interpretation of how to address the disappointment of a cultural present that folds over itself.

Bachelor of Fine Arts at UCM in Madrid, with a last year at the Camberwell College of Arts in London, his work has been exhibited individually and collectively in various institutions, including Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa de A Coruña, La Casa Encendida and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, Chicago’s Instituto Cervantes, Berlin Freires Museum, Art Fair Sudáfrica, Arte Santander or Just Madrid.

Among his individual exhibitions are notable Conmigo llevo todas las cosas (La New Gallery, 2013) and Que el destino de las cosas se decida en lugares pequeños ( Blanca Soto Arte Gallery, 2009). His multiple group exhibitions include Animalista, (La Casa Encendida, 2016), 12 Mostra Internacional de arte Gas Natural Fenosa, (Museo de arte contemporáneo de A Coruña, 2012), Otras tauromaquias (Calcografía Nacional de la Real Academia de San Fernando, 2016), or Nulla dies sine linea (Instituto Cervantes Chicago / Freies Museum Berlín & Sangsang Madang Gallery Seúl).

His work is present in both private and institutional collections, including MAC (Museo de arte contemporáneo de A Coruña), Obra Social Caja Madrid or Universidad Nacional a distancia.

Santiago Talavera

Artworks

Santiago Talavera
La herida (2015)
Drawing 2300€
Santiago Talavera
Las cosas cambiaron tan rápido que resultó difícil acompañarlas (2019)
Painting 13000€
Santiago Talavera
Tras ese muro (2018)
Painting 16500€
Santiago Talavera
I am human because you are not
Works on paper 2300€
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TODOS LOS SUEÑOS DEL MUNDO II (2022)
DrawingPainting Sold
Santiago Talavera
GEOLOGÍA DE LA HUMANIDAD (2019)
Works on paper 13000€
Santiago Talavera
Las cosas cambiaron tan rápido que resultó difícil acompañarlas / Libro II (2022)
Painting Sold
Santiago Talavera
REINVENTAR EL ESPECTÁCULO II (2022)
Works on paper 13000€
Santiago Talavera
Las cosas cambiaron tan rápido que resulto difícil acompañarlas / Libro I (2022)
Books 1380€
Santiago Talavera
LA HERIDA II (2022)
Works on paper 2300€
Santiago Talavera
TODOS LOS SUEÑOS DEL MUNDO IV (2022)
DrawingPainting 1540€
Santiago Talavera
Failed Apocalypse IV (2022)
Painting Sold
Santiago Talavera
Failed apocalypse V (2022)
Painting 1050€
Santiago Talavera
Todos los sueños del mundo IX
Painting 2000€
Santiago Talavera
El accidente original IV
Others 2800€
Santiago Talavera
Todos los sueños del mundo VIII
Painting 2000€
Santiago Talavera
El pasado habrá sido un planeta extraño VII
Painting 1050€
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El pasado habrá sido un planeta extraño VI
Painting 1050€
Santiago Talavera
El pasado habrá sido un planeta extraño V
Painting 1050€
Santiago Talavera
El pasado habrá sido un planeta extraño III
Painting 1050€
El pasado habrá sido un planeta extraño II
Painting 1050€
Santiago Talavera
El accidente original III
Painting 3300€
Santiago Talavera
Todos los sueños del mundo VII
Painting 1540€
Santiago Talavera
Reinventar el espectáculo
Drawing 9500€