Biography
Santiago Ydáñez was born in Puente de Génave (Jaén, Andalucia) in 1967, he is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish painters. He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Granada, Spain.
With the paintings Ydanez speaks to us of the depths of the human soul, and in doing so he adds no less important conceptual and metalinguistic reflections. The self-portrait is a genre that equates the work of art to the artist - "my work is me", it would seem to say - but in this case, as in many others, there is no realist verisimilitude, let alone, and this is even more surprising, psychological characterization. What we observe are studied faces or masks that conceal and reveal at the same time. Often huge open mouths that invite us to get lost in them revealing the artist's desire to involve us in his discourse as well as to proclaim his personality and identity.
