Santiago participated in several collective exhibitions and showed his works at important spaces of
chilean art scene, as Casas lo Matta and Artespacio Gallery. Emmigrating to Berlin in 2010, he
finds himself strongly impressed and influenced by the cultural and artistic environment of
Germanys capital.
From this moment on an intense exchange and cultural commutation between the old world
(Europe) and Southamerica is brought to life.
Santiagos color palette – a wifely / brutally chromatic, fluorocent spectrum reminds of pop-art and
tells us tales of psychedelic arts of the past and present. He’s characters are caricatures, living and
acting in a comic-like, scenic world of wonders and excitement, influenced strongly by Basquiat
and Alex Grey. Concerning the contentes, Santiagos universe is an intimate black Comedy,
allegories by archetypical individuals, icons and symbols, which he understands to blend together
to illustrate the contemporary human condition: a tragicomic confrontation of spirituality and altered
states of mind with a world saturated with materialisms and excesses.
Biography
Santiago Mac-Auliffe was born the 20th of July in 1985 in Santiago de Chile. In 2007 he graduated
from the famous University Finis Terrae, where he received an intense education in Visual Arts with
focus in painting. During that time Santiago acquires and develops the element, which will become
his principal means of expression in the future: on the formal side he is influenced by comic art,
graffiti and street art in general, whereas his imaginarium is composed through his obsession for
religion and psychedelics.