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Paul Kasmin Gallery presents Santi Moix on Huckleberry Finn: Watercolors and Wall Drawings

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Three years after tackling themes and images from the quintessential work of Spanish satirical-heroism, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Santi Moix animates the ultimate allegory of American cultural-heroism, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Moix’s series of watercolors, collages, and wall-drawings transcribe the optimism, color, and vernacular panache of Twain’s characters and prose. They also represent a witty confrontation between the artist and his adopted land; the works on exhibit are the quasi-autobiographical “Adventures” of Santi Moix. Just as Twain described antebellum Mississippi while writing from his home on the Connecticut coast, Moix uses his outsider status to gain perspective on America’s traditions and cultural history. Twain had to return to the Mississippi many years after he began