Artist review

Antonio Samudio paints scenes of everyday life. We see in his paintings what we all do. Samudio places his characters in the living room or in the dining room, in the bedroom or leaning out of the window, alone or in company. Although he does not show them doing extraordinary things, these are images that go beyond the limits of the ordinary. The narrative character of his work derives from comics, but not in the manner of English and American artists such as Hamilton, Warhol and Rosenquist, focused on the grandiose, exceptional, publicized and heroic, typical of beautiful and famous characters. Samudio, on the contrary, has chosen to be anti-heroic. That is why he resorts to the minor tone that he knew how to derive from Morandi. Nothing out of the ordinary happens in his small paintings, made with one foot in the joke and the other in irony. The result is a realism-other, of over-understandings that raise a smile.