PABLO CARPIO

Pablo Carpio (b. Madrid, Spain, 1979) currently lives and works in Madrid. He has lived in NewYork, where he developed part of his career, and in other different cities such as Berlín, BuenosAires and México City. His work explores the material possibilities of painting, developing aunique language, in abstract terms, that transcends the two-dimensionality of the medium, thusquestioning its own boundaries. For the making of his works, Carpio previously produces a verydense paint paste, obtaining an almost sculptural-type material, from a mixture of acrylicpigment, sand and limestone, which he intuitively applies on wood panels, using different typesof spatulas and trowels. The result is a body of work with a powerful presence whose physicalityexpands to build highly textured surfaces, of an organic and sculptural quality, based onsophisticated and bold chromatic compositions that take shape in a gestural process between theinstinctive and the meditated. The permanent and intense commitment that the artist maintainswith painting and specifically with color, added to his original use of materials, gives his artisticpractice a radically differentiating element. Beyond materiality itself, questions related toperception, movement and the sensory emerge, throughout a dialogue between the external andthe internal, the known and the unknown, the empirical and the spiritual, past and future.