Pepe Baena Nieto (1979) - Still Life With Glass Of Colacao And Cakes

- Oil on linen. - 30 x 30 cm / 36 x 36 cm with frame - Gallery certificate. He meets the journalist on his way to school, because in half an hour he has to pick up his daughter from class. It's his birthday, but the date on the calendar doesn't stop him from talking about his passion for painting, a hobby that has become a second job for him. Pepe Baena Nieto (Cádiz, 1979) is a regular on the artistic algorithm of X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Art and painting enthusiasts have come across many of his paintings, everyday images of Spanish life that have made him a contemporary messiah of still lifes. Dinosaurus biscuits with a glass of ColaCao, still-wrapped chocolate churros, the unbeatable combination of fried fish and beer or the famous oil cakes of the Inés Rosales brand. His paintings are a kind of Almodovarian scene, an image that has coexisted in any Spanish kitchen, an amalgam of classic elements of local gastronomy that have paid their rent on any shelf. "I started painting typical things, landscapes of my city, Cadiz, and a lot of fish," he said in a telephone conversation with this newspaper. He then moved on to family portraits and human figures without abandoning still lifes, his trademark.