Daniel Cuadrado (Spain) "Mourners" 2025

Daniel Cuadrado’s body of work represents the response from generation X to Spanish magical realism. It’s a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, philosophical and religious allusions from the approach, often ironic, that gives a naturalistic perspective.

Born during the mids 70’s, Cuadrado reflects upon Spanish’s post-democratic transition identity and history, grappling with the religious mythology of the Francoist dictatorship. Fusing modernity and tradition, Cuadrado engages the complex events of mystic and the eternal epics of life, death, and the hope.

His repertoire of imagery is going paralleled by the breadth of media palpable in his work. Cuadrado’s oeuvre encompasses paintings and works on paper such as drawings and watercolors. The physical elements of his practice—from raw pigments to dollar notes—are as symbolically resonant as they are pondered. By integrating, expanding and regenerating images and techniques, it brings to light what is sacred and spiritual in the daily life.

Daniel Cuadrado was born in 1975 in Tarazona, Spain and settled in Madrid. After working as an assistant in Jose Luis Zamora’s painting studio, he attended the Zaragoza School of Arts, joining the Aragonese magical realism group in the 1990s. Cuadrado’s work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs in Berlin, Rome, Madrid and New York and is collected by clients and institutions around the world.

Size: 41 x 31 cm

More info: Daniel Cuadrado Website

The work is unframed and comes with a certificate