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Eduardo Santiere: Crowds [Multitudes]

The firm hand sought out the minimal and a world appeared. Later, a hunger for color grew, until it covered everything. The episode between was the digging into paper’s bowels. This is Eduardo Santiere’s medium and matter: surface and volume. With graphite, colored pencils, sharp materials and infinite meticulousness, Santiere composes universes whose scale we cannot be sure of. He constructs a Scenario for an Empty World [Escenario para un mundo vacío] – one of his “scratchings” on exhibit – subjecting the paper’s surface to incisions and tearings that …