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jill newhouse gallery
is pleased to
present for the first time in the United States
the paintings and drawings of Pere and Josep
Santilari, in association with Artur Ramon
Art, Barcelona.
Twin brothers Pere and Josep Santilari
were born in Badalona in
1959
and gradu-
ated in
1981
with a degree in fine arts from
the University of Barcelona. The Santilaris’
work demonstrates a contemporary sensibility,
while their roots and paradigms lie in the clas-
sical subjects of art history—the townscape,
the painter and his model, and the still-life, all
drawn with technical precision.
Building on the Spanish still-life
tradition of the
Bodegón
as well as the work
of Baroque painters such as Francisco
de Zurbarán and Juan Sánchez Cotán, the
Santilari brothers depict humble, quotid-
ian objects and infuse them with an almost
religious reverence, while at the same time