Santiago Arranz

These paintings of real landscapes from the surroundings of Santiago Arranz’s workshop in the Huesca Pyrenees, are the new pictorial project that the painter began in July 2019 and that recuperates a simple means of expression such as painting within the immense range that the arts are today. The painting of nature serves as a pretext for making a pictorial work far removed from history and literature, placing the intellectual reflections of the work of art at the same level of feelings.

Biography
Santiago Arranz. Sabiñánigo (Huesca), 1959.
He graduated in Art History from the University of Barcelona in 1982.
From 1986 to 1994 he has resided in France, first in Fontainebleau and later on in Paris.
Starting in the 90s, he invented a system of signs and symbols to translate the world into his language, which has its antecedent in his work Abecedario, Paris, 1991. From that moment, the decision to incorporate specific vocabularies for each topic characterizes his work, whether incorporated in pictorial or architectural projects, allowing him to go from fiction to function in a permanent mutation of thought to life.

Latest Exhibitions:
2017 – Santiago Arranz … and he was no longer seen to be seen. Zaragoza, Gallery A of Art
2016 – Santiago Arranz / Hassan Bourkia. The virtues of the solitary bird- Tribute to Juan Goytisolo. Granada, Royal Quarter of Santo
2015 – Santiago Arranz- Hassan Bourkia, l´oiseau solitaire. Hommage à Juan Goytisolo. Toulouse, the manufac- turer cube CIAM. Santiago Arranz – Rewriting. Cáceres, El Brocense. Santiago Arranz- Hassan Bourkia. Les vertus de l´oiseau solitaire. Hommage à Juan Goytisolo. Marrakech, riad dar Cherifa.
2014 – Santiago Arranz, Paris m´éveille, Valencia. Institut Français, April 3-May 2, 2014. Santiago Arranz, Pinturas Pintadas, Barbastro, UNED
2013 – Santiago Arranz. Vocabulaires du vide. Toulouse, La Fabrique-Le Cube / Bibliothèque Universitaire
2012 – Santiago Arranz. Another reality, Fraga, Palacio de Montcada – Santiago Arranz, Huesca, Galería la carbonería.
2011-2012 – Santiago Arranz, One and another reality, Zaragoza, La lonja
2011 – Santiago Arranz. One and another reality, Zaragoza.
2010 – Santiago Arranz. The discourse of the real, Cali, Exhibition Hall of the Fundación Hispanoamericana
2009 – Santiago Arranz. The discourse of the real, Bogotá, Reyes Católicos Spanish Cultural and Educational Center – Santiago Arranz. Letters, words and literature, Brussels, Instituto Cervantes.
2008 – Santiago Arranz. Distance and closeness. Drawings 1985-2008, Sabiñánigo, Julio Gavín-Castillo de Larrés Drawing Museum – Santiago Arranz. Jeux mystérieux. Du noir à l’écriture, Gaillac, Musée des Beaux-Arts – Andillac, Château-musée du Cayla
2006 – Santiago Arranz. The repeated truth, Castejón de Sos, Cultural Center
2005 – Santiago Arranz. Cities and Morlanes, Anciles, Museum Room – Santiago Arranz. From life to nothing, Valderrobres
2004 – Santiago Arranz. Relieves, Fregenal de la Sierra (Badajoz), La Cinoja – Santiago Arranz. The History Line, Zaragoza, Casa de Los Morlanes – Santiago Arranz. Visible cities, Huesca, Matadero Cultural Center