Dis-Believe Age Painting

Max Cantillo entire production is based on a basic premise... there is no reason to create (or to do anything) we must invent those reasons... hence his work is a reflection of will and its mechanisms: ideology, self-delusion and, of course, magic. Fascinated with the ability of all human beings to emerge from the ocean of indolence, the artist becomes a visual and conceptual commentator of the complex and dark reasons* that allow human beings live every day. From this general issue, technique becomes an instrument to materialize an idea. His advertising heritage (more than 10 years as a copywriter) let him see a paintbrush or a computer as mere means to realize concepts. Hence their resume is complex and the artist is impossible to pigeonhole into a specific technique or media. *Unreasons