Santiago PICATOSE
Santiago Picatoste
The work of Santiago Picatoste (Palma de Mallorca, 1971), arises from the new Post-Painterly Abstraction, a term coined in 1964 in Los Angeles by the curator and art critic Clement Greenberg. We are talking about the care of color, the creation of new textures, hallmarks attributed to urban art and a plastic distribution framed within the hyper-aesthetic expression.
Santiago Picatoste praises the plastic arts, and in his execution, he seems to attempt to "freeze, or crystallize" the painterly gesture, at times delving deeper and contrasting it in a seemingly perfect pairing between what we understand today as Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. The result is a balanced, dynamic, colorful, and exquisitely crafted work. Or, as the artist likes to say: "Beauty as Transgression."
His leitmotif is centered on color, on its importance in determining the final message of the work (allusion to
Matisse when describing the importance of color on the surface of the work), and the “alchemical investigation” of the creative process, through the use of many and varied industrial elements, for example by combining traditional techniques, such as oil or acrylic paint, in contrast and balance with synthetic enamels, methacrylates, crystals, industrial chloroform, aluminum, etc.
At Red House, we are proud to have worked with Picatoste since our beginnings. We have produced several highly successful exhibitions and curatorial projects, such as Archi(piélagos) in 2016 or Hangar in 2025, among others. His work hangs on the walls of many Red House Collectors, but we would like to highlight one of his latest collaborations with Red House: the creation of 200 works of art for a luxury hotel, in this case, the new Kimpton Los Monteros 5*GL in Marbella. This hotel reopened in 2025, featuring a selection of artworks by top Spanish artists under the artistic guidance of Red House Art: luxury in full color.
