Por Consejo de los Cantos Cámbricos Enrique de Santiago

Toda ciudad hiede a sombras
las cuales son a su vez sus cementos,
que la ocultan,
a ella, la de la piel perlada
y ojos evocadores.
Filo emergido del océano antiguo bajo la oscuridad nubosa de la palabra
sonido del reino animal que dibuja su notocorda (o notocordio) por consejo de los cantos cámbricos de células turgentes
y cada cuerda se compone según designio
con ese diseño urdido en los albores del primer sentir del todo
música que continúa con su decibel arcano y transversal.

written and illustrated by ©Enrique de Santiago

Enrique de Santiago is Enrique González Chouquert

Born in 1961, he entered the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile in 1980, from where he was exonerated at the end of 1981. There he had classes with artists such as Luis Lobo Parga, Adolfo Couve and Luis Advis among others. It was then that he began his studies in fine arts at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where he was a student of Sergio Sosa, Milan Ivelic, Gaspar Galaz and Enrique Zamudio, among a long list of notable academics.
He interrupted these studies to enter Graphic Design, where he would meet great masters, such as his friend Claudio Cortes, or the outstanding Antonio Pérez and Patricio de la O. At the end of this training, he returned for one more year to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and finally , studied a Color diploma at the Catholic University of Chile during 1992.

He is considered one of the most notable representatives of surrealist painting; His works have been exhibited in Italy, France, Spain and the United States.