Sanitlari Paintings and Drawings

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