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The Lázaro Galdiano Museum transforms into a studio, a temple, and a living space of creation. The protagonist: Santiago Ydáñez, the XXL painter who paints as if the world were slipping away with every brushstroke.
His studio moves into the museum —literally— to give life to a large-scale painting created in situ, where energy becomes matter, faith turns into gesture, and painting ignites into pure combustion. “Painting is a kind of communion with oneself,” says Ydáñez, and that communion can be witnessed during the Open Café Estudio sessions (October 25 and 26) or heard at his public talk (Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m.).
With Café Estudio, the Lázaro Galdiano reaffirms its mission: to connect its classical collection with the pulse of contemporary creation. A museum that doesn’t lock itself in the past but invites artists to inhabit it —to make it vibrate.
Ydáñez, who once painted the largest canvas in Spain in just two and a half hours, returns to this space where, back in 2016, he reinterpreted fifty of the museum’s works. His painting —visceral, spiritual, monumental— is a mirror of human passions, a roar made color.
Supported by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Residencia de Estudiantes, this residency serves art hot —with the scent of the studio, sweat, and emotion.
From October 20 to 29, visit the Café Estudio at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and find Santiago Ydáñez at work.
Art is not to be looked at —it’s to be lived.