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About
Pablo Carpio is a visual artist who has developed his practice in New York, Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City, and currently works from Madrid.
His work approaches painting as a territory of material investigation: pronounced reliefs, dense textures, and gestures that transform the pictorial surface into an object with physical presence. In his work, painting ceases to be representation and becomes autonomous reality —matter that occupies space and interrogates it.
Carpio's process maintains a constant dialogue with the sculptural. The artist's action and the resistance of materials are negotiated in each piece, generating abstract landscapes that emerge from that tension. Each work unfolds as an act with a beginning and an end: gestures are rehearsed, repeated, improvised and transformed, building a surface where each mark finds its place alongside the others.
The result offers the viewer a simultaneously visual and tactile experience: the work is seen and sensed with the body. Facing his works, one may experience something close to an encounter with a natural phenomenon. Something that happens before you, that cannot be explained but must be moved through.
In a moment of digital image saturation, Carpio asserts the trace of gesture and the irreducible power of matter. A tension that runs through his own practice: his works are paintings that overflow the plane, as if the image, pushed to its limit, wanted to become an object.
He was a recipient of the Artist Mentoring Program (IAP) of the New York Foundation for the Arts (2013). His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in spaces such as: New York Foundation for the Arts (2013), Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation (New York, 2013), Waterfall Mansion & Gallery (New York, 2014), the 3rd Edition of the Biennial of Visual Arts Areatec (Buenos Aires, 2014), Petit Palace Savoy Alfonso XII (Madrid, 2016), 80 Valdepeñas Visual Arts International Exhibition (2019), Deji Art Museum (Nanjing, China, 2021), Paul Smith Store & Gallery (London, 2022), Cerquone Gallery (Caracas, 2021. Madrid, 2019, 2022) or Palau de Casavells by Alzueta Gallery (Girona, 2022). Shortlisted for the 36th edition of the BMW Painting Award. He recently participated in the fourth edition of the Club Paraíso artistic residency at the Cerquone Gallery. (Caracas - Margarita Island, 2024). His work is held in private and institutional collections worldwide.