Santiago Climent

“Painting, for me, is a need for freedom — something I cannot achieve through music itself.”

Biography

Santiago Climent Pastor (Gaianes, Alicante, 1983) is a self-taught painter, musician, and composer.

Since childhood, he has felt a deep attraction to painting, influenced by his father’s landscape works.
Although his path began in music —as a band director and composer— he found in painting a freer way to express what sound could not convey.

His work blends the primitive and the contemporary, using mixed media, inks, wood, and organic materials. In his book CATALEG, inspired by prehistoric art, he recreates hunting scenes, prehistoric animals, and moments of everyday life, exploring the origins of symbol and emotion.

Climent understands art as an instinctive language that connects with the inner truth of the human being.

Since his first solo exhibition at the Museo de la Almazara (Gaianes, 2022), he has participated in international art fairs and exhibitions (Times Square – New York, ArtBox Switzerland, Paris, Madrid, Palma) and collaborates with several galleries across Spain.

Exhibitions

  • 2022 – Solo exhibition at the Museum of the Almasera (Gaianes, Alicante).
     Interview broadcasted by Intercomarcal TV.

  • 2024 – Participation in the Art Fair Expo Meta Fractaliax.
     Exhibition at Times Square (New York) at the international fair Art & Movement Fractaliax.
     Participation in the International Art Fair Art & Movement in New York Summer.
     Group exhibition at Michels de Champourcin Gallery (Madrid).
     Review in the magazine Revistart (Spain) and participation in the cultural magazine Punto de encuentro (Colombia).
     Mural exhibition at Gallery Origen (Madrid).
     Exhibition at Worldwide Galleri ArtBox (Switzerland).
     Participation in ArtExpo Paris and at the fair Nexus Art 1.0 (Lanza Arte MCH).
     Exhibition ArtBox Projects at Casa del Arte Palma.
     Exhibition at Mados Gallery Madridcollaboration Art with Valencia.

  • 2025 – Virtual exhibition MCH Michels de Champourcin.
    Group exhibition Michels de Champourcin.
    Selected in the International Art Fair Art & Movement – Fractaliax 2025.
    Participation in the Army 2025 Awards with the work Spanish Armyreceiving official congratulations from the Institute of Military History and Culture.

  • 2026 – Exhibition with the Pashmin Art Consortia Gallery (Hamburg, Germany).

Virtual exhibition

About the exhibition

In Instinct and Memory, Santiago Climent invites us to explore the different dimensions of the human experience:

the ancestral, as a memory that still beats within us;
the instinctive, that animal side which feels without thinking;
the collective, the noise of the world; and
the sensitive, solitude, fragility, the inward gaze.

Between the primitive and the contemporary, the artist builds his own language, exploring gesture, texture, and emotion as a form of inner search, a continuous study of his own path.

Rather than focusing on symmetry or formal perfection, Climent seeks to capture the intensity of the moment, the living trace of the process, the shadows of worn faces, and the hidden movement behind each scene.

Instinct and memory is, in short, a visual journey where memory and instant meet to show that which endures beyond both.

Santiago Climent

artist

Gaianes (Alicante)