Espai Princesa is hosting a new exhibition by Santi Pina, in collaboration with The Guide Artists, from May 15 to May 31.

Santi Pina (Zaragoza, 1998) presents PRAETERITUM, a solo show in collaboration with the artist book publisher The Guide Artists. At just 26 years old, Pina emerges as one of the most compelling young voices within the new wave of realist painting, combining baroque-inspired technical mastery with a deeply contemporary exploration of the human figure.

The exhibition gathers a series of works that, through meticulous execution and a restrained palette, delve into the tensions of modern existence: solitude, anxiety, identity loss, and emotional fragility. Through carefully composed scenes and bodies suspended between introspection and exposure, PRAETERITUM becomes a mirror of the present built with the visual language of the past.

The exhibition’s title (Latin for “that which has passed”) alludes both to Pina’s relationship with the pictorial tradition and to the cyclical nature of the human condition. In each canvas, Santi Pina portrays not only physical forms but also states of the soul, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of baroque pathos, where chiaroscuro defines not only shapes, but also existences.

This collaboration with The Guide Artists places Pina among a new generation of international talents and reinforces his commitment to the artwork as a total object: painting, discourse, and artist book as inseparable parts of the same aesthetic inquiry.

PRAETERITUM is not a nostalgic look at the art of the past, but a powerful reaffirmation of its relevance in questioning the present.