Santiago Zarzosa

ACENTRICSPACE第210位驻地艺术家

2026年十月，十一月驻地艺术家
Santiago Zarzosa

No. 210 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist

2026 October, November Resident Artist
Santiago Zarzosa

关于艺术家 About the Artist

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Santiago Zarzosa是一位视觉艺术家，专攻油画、综合材料、干刻版画和炭笔素描。他也通过摄影、水彩以及日本浮世绘和油毡版画等多种印刷技法，来表达自己对世界的看法和个人经历。

Zarzosa的艺术实践建立在对结构、运动、物质性和空间感知的持续探索之上。他的创作历程始于描绘城市景观的具象油画；在这些作品中，建筑、环境和观察到的形态激发了他对空间组织及图像物质存在感的早期兴趣。随后，他的艺术语言通过干刻版画得以拓展，引入了刻痕、压力、重复以及将肢体动作直接转化为物质痕迹的创作方式。

随着时间的推移，具象表现逐渐让位于更广阔的抽象形式，物质本身成为了创作的主体。Zarzosa利用综合材料、流淌颜料、油画颜料和构建出的立体表面进行大幅创作，将重力视为一种活跃的构图力量，而不仅仅是一种物理现象。他任由颜料流动、堆积、受阻、交汇并改变流向，从而创造出一个让创作意图与物理力量不断博弈的过程。

他的画作游走于动作与结构、控制与偶然、表面与体量之间。色彩与线条的层叠交织产生了一种持续的推拉张力，这种张力既仿佛内嵌于画面之中，又似乎向画面之外延伸。立体的物质堆积与密度的变化，打破了画布传统的平面性，将其转化为一个更具不稳定性且充满物理张力的场域。

这种从城市具象描绘，经由版画那种具有刻划力的语言，最终走向大幅物质抽象的演变，并非对早期实践的否定，而是一种循序渐进的拓展。我们所熟知的世界，正日益转化为各种力量、关系与物质事件的呈现。因此，Zarzosa当下的创作将绘画视为一个物理系统：在这个空间里，重力、动作、色彩、密度、透明度和维度相互作用，共同构建出一种不断演变的视觉语言。

这一创作实践的核心在于探究物质如何运动、占据空间并建立关联，从而将画布从世界的图像转变为一个充满活力的场域，使物理力量与感知力量得以显现。

Santiago Zarzosa is a visual artist specialized in oil painting, mixed media, drypoint printmaking, and charcoal drawing. Santiago also expresses his view of the world and his experiences through other media, such as photography, watercolours, and printing techniques like Japanese Ukiyo-e & linoleum-based Linocut.

Santiago Zarzosa’s practice has evolved through a sustained investigation of structure, movement, materiality, and spatial perception. His trajectory began with urban representational oil painting, where architecture, environment, and observed form established an early interest in the organization of space and the physical presence of the image. This language subsequently expanded through drypoint printmaking, introducing incision, pressure, repetition, and the direct physical translation of gesture into the work.

Over time, representation has progressively given way to a more expansive form of abstraction in which matter itself becomes the subject. Working on a large scale with mixed media, poured paint, oil, and constructed dimensional surfaces, Zarzosa explores gravity not simply as a physical condition but as an active compositional force. Paint is permitted to flow, accumulate, resist, intersect, and redirect itself, creating a process in which intention and physical forces remain in constant negotiation.

His paintings operate between gesture and structure, control and contingency, surface and volume. Layered passages of color and line generate a continual push and pull, producing spatial tensions that can appear simultaneously embedded within and extending beyond the picture plane. Three-dimensional accumulations and density variations transform the canvas’s traditional flatness into a more unstable, physically charged field.

This evolution—from urban representation, through the incisive language of printmaking, toward large-scale material abstraction—is not a rejection of his earlier practice but its progressive expansion. The recognizable world becomes increasingly translated into

forces, relationships, and material events. Zarzosa’s current work therefore approaches painting as a physical system: a space in which gravity, gesture, color, density, transparency, and dimensionality interact to construct an evolving visual language.

At its core, the practice examines how matter moves, occupies space, and generates relationships—transforming the canvas from an image of the world into an active site where physical and perceptual forces become visible.

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MATTER LIFE SERIES

“物质是一种占据空间并具有静止质量的物理实体，其概念常与能量相对照。

物质既是占据空间并具有重量的实体，又与能量保持着持续的互动与对话。在“物质与生命”系列的构想中，物质成为了阳性与阴性力量之间根本性互动的隐喻。阳性特质体现为层叠的密度、线性的结构与重力感；阴性特质则体现为流动的轮廓、开放的姿态与形态的有机律动。这两种既对立又互补的存在在画面上共存，碰撞、融合、演变，映射出塑造万物生命的本质二元性。由此，物质不仅是物理现实，更具有象征意义：它是承载关系性能量、张力与统一性的容器。

在绘画技法层面，我采用了受Brice Marden、de Kooning和Gorky影响的线性蔓藤式笔触，将肢体动作、直觉与流动性融为一体。线条不仅是形式要素，更构成了独立的结构，呈现出如同锻造材质般的重量感与存在感。这种线性形态具备了Richard Serra钢铁装置艺术那种工业般的坚实特质，坚定、有力且极具物质张力。迷宫般的构图引导观者踏上一段非线性的感知之旅，提供了无限的切入视角。这种构图邀请观者进行视觉上的漫游，每一次视角的转换都会揭示出新的空间律动，仿佛观者能够步入并穿行于画面表象之下的那个隐秘世界。

该系列通过抽象的视觉语言，诠释了存在的二元性。阳性与阴性并非截然对立，而是相互依存的能量，它们彼此塑造并相互成就。通过将密度与透明度、结构与流动性进行层叠交织，“物质与生命”系列探索了这些元素如何在画布上相互作用。它们的共存反映了人类经验与自然世界的复杂性：张力孕育了和谐，而平衡的达成并非依赖对称，而是源于彼此间的对话。”

“Matter is a physical substance that occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy.

Matter is a physical substance—something that occupies space and carries weight, distinct from yet in constant dialogue with energy. Within the conceptual framework of the Matter Life Series, matter becomes a metaphor for the fundamental interplay between masculine and feminine forces. The male is expressed through layered density, linear structures, and gravitational weight, while the female is embodied in fluid contours, openness, and the organic flow of form. These opposing yet complementary presences coexist across the surface—colliding, merging, and evolving—mirroring the essential duality that shapes all life. In this way, matter is not only a physical reality but also a symbolic one: a container for relational energy, tension, and unity.

On the technical painting side. I have followed a linear arabesque influenced by Brice Marden, de Kooning, and Gorky—where gesture, intuition, and fluidity converge. The line functions not only as a formal element but as a structure in itself, rendered with the weight and presence of a forged material. This linear figure takes on a density akin to the industrial solidity of Richard Serra’s iron installations—firm, assertive, and unapologetically material. The maze-like configurations guide the viewer through a non-linear path of perception, offering infinite points of entry. They invite a kind of visual wandering, where each shift in perspective reveals a new spatial rhythm—as if one could step into and navigate that concealed world beneath the surface.

This series embraces the duality of existence through the visual language of abstraction. The masculine and feminine are not opposites, but interdependent energies—forces that shape and complete one another. By layering density against transparency, structure against fluidity, the Matter Life Series explores how these elements interact across the canvas. Their coexistence reflects the complexity of human experience and the natural world, where tension gives rise to harmony, and balance is achieved not through symmetry, but through dialogue.”