Pablo Carpio

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Madrid, 1979

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Piedra con Piedra. Galería Cerquone, Madrid, Spain (2022)
Silencios sedimentados, Galería Mirat Projects, Madrid, Spain (2018)
Petit Palace Savoy Alfonso XII, Hybrid Art Festival, Madrid, Spain (2016)
2 Medios, Galería Mirat & Co, Madrid, Spain (2016)
Movimientos, Espacio Naranjo, Madrid, Spain (2011)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Palau de Casavells. Galería Alzueta, Girona, Spain (2022)
36ª edición del Premio BMW de Pintura, Exposición colectiva, Online (2021)
Paul Smith Store & Gallery, London, UK (2021)
Deji Art Museum, Exposición colectiva inaugural, Nanjing, China (2021)
Estampa Art Fair, Galería Jorge Alcolea, Madrid, Spain (2021)
Galería Jorge Alcolea, Abstraciones, concebir la forma, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
Galería Cerquone, Fresco, Caracas, Venezuela (2021)
Art Matters 2, Galerie Biesenbach, Online (2020)
Galería Bea Villamarín, Gijón, Asturias, Spain (2020)
Cerquone, Sweet Space Museum, Madrid, Spain (2020)
#busyARThome, Programa Taide (2020)
Percatarse de una cosa no es conocerla, Espacio Vista, Madrid, Spain (2020)
Deep Blue See, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2020)
Gabinete, Galería Cerquone Projects, Madrid, Spain (2019)
Pretenso, Galería Cerquone Projects, Madrid, Spain (2019)
80 Exposición internacional de artes plásticas de Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain (2019)
Should I stay or should I go, Barbecho, Ars COCO, Madrid, Spain (2018)
Abierto al público, Espacio Vista, Madrid, Spain (2018)
Art Fair Málaga, Mirat Projects, Malaga, Spain (2017)
JustMad, Mirat Projects, Madrid, Spain (2017)
Constructing Painting, Pablo Carpio – Denise Treizman, Espacio Vista, Ars COCO, Hybrid Art Festival, Madrid, Spain (2017)
Salón abierto de pintura, Ladrón Galería, Ciudad de México, Mexico (2016)
Borderless: In Perspective, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2016)
On Site on 16 Cities, Babette Space, Berlin, Germany (2016)
Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Sino-American Artists Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Javis Center, Nueva York, USA (2016)
On Site in 16 Cities, Berlin Collective, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Direction, Concepto Hudson Gallery, Hudson, Nueva York, USA (2015)
You’ve got mail, Ground Floor Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Face to Place, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Face to Place, New York Foundation for the Arts, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Affordable Art Fair, Galleria Ca’d’Oro, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Select Art Fair, Alessandro Berni Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Areatec 3a Bienal de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014)
Feel Life, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery. Summer Arts Festival 2014, Nueva York, USA (2014)
Seeking Space, The Active Space Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2014)
Square, Spacewomb Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2014)
2013 Pangea. New York Foundation for the Arts, Dumbo Art Festival, Nueva York, USA (2014)
Local Project Mural 2013, Two-Person Exhibition, Local Project Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2013)
Entropía, Espacio Naranjo, Madrid, Spain (2012)
Group show, Loft594 Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2012)
I Love Music, Montana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2018)
Love and Hate, Aerosol Warfare Gallery, Houston, USA (2006 )
Weapons Inspection II, Aerosol Warfare Gallery, Houston, USA (2006 )
Weapons Inspection, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Nueva York, USA (2005)
Destino Clandestino, Madrid, Spain (2003)

TEXTS
PAC (Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo) (2022)
Chicha Proyectos (2022)
Heroes of Tomorrow Magazine. (2022)
Desatados, Radio3, In RTVE, Video entrevista (2020)
Masdearte, Sección Fichados, Publicación online (2020)
Silencios sedimentados, Exposición individual, Mirat Projects Gallery, Jade de Cock de Rameyen (2018)
Siglo XXI de Radio 3, RTVE. Contenedores de arte, Entrevista, Desde el minuto 38 al 42’5 (2018)
Picnic Magazine, Entrevista (2016)
Art Discover (2016)
Artslant, Under the Radar (2016)
Descubrir el Arte, Nº191 (2015)
Bric Arts Media Short List, Curated By Erin Gleason (2014)
Fronterad Magazine, Pablo Carpio: La vida de un artista en Nueva York, Jonathan Goodman (2013)
La Crítica NYC, Pablo Carpio: Artista en la encrucijada, Eduardo Lago (2013)

AWARDS
BMW painted award, shortlisted (2021)
Art Matters 2. Galerie Biesenbach. Honorific Mention (2020)
80 Exposición internacional de artes plásticas de Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, shortlisted (2019)
ArtSlant 1st 2017 Showcase competition, Showcase Juried Winner (2017)
Brooklyn Art Space Residency, shortlisted, Nueva York, USA (2015)
ArtSlant 2nd 2014 Showcase competition, Showcase Juried Winner (2014)
Areatec 3a Bienal de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, shortlisted (2014)
The New York Foundation for The Arts, IAP program, Nueva York, USA (2013)

EDUCATION
El archivo como recurso artístico, impartido por Lynda Avendaño Santana, Espacio Vista, Madrid, Spain (2018)
Seminario Crítica de Arte, impartido por Gustavo Luna, Zona de Desgaste, Ciudad de México, Mexico (2016)
Conversations in Contemporary Painting, School of Visual Arts, Nueva York, USA (2015)
Tiempo y memoria en Walter Benjamin: Otra representación de la historia (2014)
Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentian (2014)
Escultura, impartido por Liene Bosque, PI art Center, Nueva York, USA (2013)
Color. School of Visual Arts, Nueva York, USA (2004)
Diseño gráfico. School of Visual Arts, Nueva York, USA (2004)
Diseño gráfico. Vía Formación Escuela de Publicidad, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (2003)
Ilustración y creación gráfica, (ESDIP), Madrid, Spain (2002)

COLLECTIONS
NYFA (New York Foundation for the arts), New York, USA
Areatec, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deji Art Museum, Nanjin, China
Colecciones privadas: EE.UU, México, España, Francia, Alemania, Inglaterra, Suiza, Venezuela, China.

About

Pablo Carpio (b. Madrid, Spain, 1979) currently lives and works in Madrid. He has lived in New
York, where he developed part of his career, and in other different cities such as Berlín, Buenos
Aires and México City. His work explores the material possibilities of painting, developing a
unique language, in abstract terms, that transcends the two-dimensionality of the medium, thus
questioning its own boundaries. For the making of his works, Carpio previously produces a very
dense paint paste, obtaining an almost sculptural-type material, from a mixture of acrylic
pigment, sand and limestone, which he intuitively applies on wood panels, using different types
of spatulas and trowels. The result is a body of work with a powerful presence whose physicality
expands to build highly textured surfaces, of an organic and sculptural quality, based on
sophisticated and bold chromatic compositions that take shape in a gestural process between the
instinctive and the meditated. The permanent and intense commitment that the artist maintains
with painting and specifically with color, added to his original use of materials, gives his artistic
practice a radically differentiating element. Beyond materiality itself, questions related to
perception, movement and the sensory emerge, throughout a dialogue between the external and
the internal, the known and the unknown, the empirical and the spiritual, past and future.

“My work explores the material possibilities of painting, developing a language, in abstract terms,
that transcends the two-dimensionality of the medium and thus questions its own limits. The
result is works that take shape from a gestural process that expands in volume —thus redefining
the physicality of the pictorial medium— to propose a material reality, apart from any type of
visual representation, capable of being experienced from the sensory, and that connects with
different layers of memory, both individual and collective. My works develop through a constant
dialogue between the external and the internal, the known and the unknown, the empirical and
the spiritual, past and future. Dualities that keep my work in constant evolution.”

– Pablo Carpio