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Biography
Santiago Serrano (Villacañas, Toledo, 1942) develops a sustained research on the elements of painting: surface, color, matter, gesture and time. Linked to the renewal of Spanish abstraction since the 1970s, it has built its own language that keeps the dialogue between sensitive experience and conceptual thinking open.
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His production includes painting, work on paper and pieces that incorporate wood and metal. The texture, the interruptions of the plane and the void are not simple formal resources: they introduce new ways of perceiving the presence of the work and its relationship to space.
With more than sixty individual exhibitions, his career is documented in collections such as the Reina Sofía Museum, the MACBA and the collections Pilar Citoler, Helga de Alvear and Marcelino Botín. Marquesa Gallery opened its exhibition program with Geometrías del Silencio in October 2024, curated by Mariano Navarro. In 2025 he presented Ahuecar: 50 años de pintura, curated by Mariana Rey.
Documented career
Institutional highlights
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
Corresponding Academic in Painting by Toledo. The Academy documents its participation in the awarding of diplomas held on May 11, 2026.
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Selected highlights
Solo exhibitions
- 2025 · Ahuecar: 50 años de pintura, Marquesa Gallery, Madrid. Curated by: Mariana Rey.
- Geometrías del Silencio, Marquesa Gallery, Madrid. Curated by: Mariano Navarro.
Awards and residencies
- Corresponding scholar in Painting by Toledo, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Award of diploma: May 11, 2026.
Collections
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
- Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA).
- Pilar Citoler Collection.
- Helga de Alvear Collection.
- Collection Marcelino Botín.
Exhibitions at Marquesa
2 exhibitions
Texts and publications
Texts of the exhibition
Curatorial Text
Cupping. 50 years of painting
Critical text
The picture as a work idea
Documentary selection
Press and publications
Ahuecar: 50 años de pintura
A critical reading of the exhibition and Serrano’s pictorial trajectory.
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Research on Serrano's painting during the seventies.
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