Art
The garden of Santi Moix in Barcelona
Santi Moix would never have believed it if a few years ago if someone had said he would begin painting flowers. Yet, the Barcelona artist has done just that and devoted himself to one of the oldest artistic genres, floral representation. Three years ago in New York, Japanese texture artist, Jo Watanabe, asked Moix to work with him. “I want flowers,” he said, and so Moix began to paint flowers, a pursuit he found strange at first but which over time made him “understand why artists have always painted flowers throughout history,” he says.
Out of this came the long series of floral works that Moix has transported straight from his New York studio to the Carles Taché gallery in Barcelona. They are vital, colourful works in which the flowers, dried or live, appear to exist on the frontier between figurative and abstract art. The exhibition, Santi Moix. The Brooklyn Navy Yard, runs till the end of June.