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Alexandro Santana

With an artistic career spanning over 25 years, Alexandro Santana received his B.F.A and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. He also studied Romance Languages and Philosophy at Brown University, Art History, and Fine Arts at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Santana’s work has been represented in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, as well as internationally in Austria and the Dominican Republic.

Artist Statement
The lack of self knowledge within contemporary culture has reached a tragic limit. The world is decomposing. The search for self knowledge appears obsolete. Today we search for competition, comparisons, knowledge of the other, cronyism, and self-effacement. Motivations emerge via peer pressure: the group conducts our desire. Ideals, desires, even fetishes have lost their individuality and origin. Contemporary society consumes itself. Crime seems to be the ultimate expression of consumption: a consumption of the soul. There are no martyrs. There are no saints. The world enjoys abusing power, and death is losing its transcendental power. All is bullshit. Man enjoys crime. Fetishism is disguised as justice. I hope my paintings, Crime Series, confront us with this tragedy.

“The same divine beginning lives in all people, and no single person or gathering of people has the right to destroy this connection between the divine beginning and a human body, that is, to take a human life. “ -- Leo Tolstoy