Citadel

Date2015

MediumAcrylic on assembled canvas

Dimensions48 × 48 in. (121.9 × 121.9 cm) Framed Size: 49 3/4 × 49 3/4 in. (126.4 × 126.4 cm)

Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection

Object numberDCCAH2017.016.1

ClassificationsPaintings

Locations

Department of Human Resources (1015 Half Street SE, 9th Floor)

DescriptionThis painting reflects Santiago Flores Charneco’s new environment here in DC, with the familiar imagery of city maps, the architectural planes of the urban complex, the patterns of gentrification and transmutation, always with an emphasis on dimensionality, design, and abstraction. Nevertheless, it conjures a definite relationship with Caribbean traditions, maintaining an emphasis on the conjugation of designs, surfaces and colors, which generate a multiplicity of planes of different depths, textural variables and tonal contrasts.