Sergi Cadenas has been training all his life to run his family’s centuries-old foundry in Spain but, fueled by a passion for experimentation and creativity, he started painting at the age of 30. Self-taught, Sergi Cadenas builds large-scale canvases with precise vertical ridges before painting separate portraits on either side of the narrow ridges. The process leads to a mesmerizing effect in which each portrait appears to transform into the other as the viewer shifts vantage point, an exceptional technique that requires great precision in its difficult execution.
Sergi Cadenas is currently focusing on large-format portraits and takes as a model both famous faces and people around him, and he rose to fame after a series of Instagram videos of his illusory, dual-image portraits went viral. His works can be found in the Porrentruy Optical Art Museum (POPA) in Switzerland and in private collections around the world.