Pabli Stein
Bio
Pabli Stein lives and works in Buenos Aires. Born in a family dedicated to women's clothing, his approach to this world developed alongside his interest in painting. Through pictorial language in paintings, collages or videos, he investigates the sign of fashion and advertising aesthetics. In the beginning he participated in the Project-A Award (2010, 2011, 2012). His exhibitions include his solo show, La Piel Traslúcida, Haimney Gallery, Barcelona 2019; El ojo en la boca, Qimera 2021; Form As a Context, a group show at the Frost Museum, Miami 2017 and La Otra Luz, Espacio Enso, Bs. As 2014. He exhibited at international fairs: arteBA, SCOPE, Art Toronto and Art Lima. In 2020 and 2021 he did a research process on his work at the Uberbau_house center in Brazil. His work has been included in Latinoamérica al Límite and Circuitos del Arte (Arte Al Limite, 2014 and 2018); Noche abierta (Editorial Patricia Rizzo, 2021) is the first book dedicated exclusively to his work
Statement
My work explores the conflict between what is exposed and what is hidden. Both my paintings and my collages are nurtured by photographs related to fashion and advertising aesthetics. They present the female figure in full, as a detail, or just as a trace. Sometimes they are focused on texture, and sometimes on material, brightness halo, contrast. If something becomes too obvious, I discard it. Starting with these cuts and indications, I compose an image, then I gradually pour gestures on it: tearing, veiling, scratching, filling, sweeping, spilling, or dripping. I superimpose color layers as if they were layers of meaning until the original figure becomes blurred and it starts revealing the reference’s wear and tear. The image gets submerged in a query and the painting almost turns into another character; the veil becomes more essential than the veiled object. In these times where nothing is hidden, I aim to recover part of eroticism’s lost brightness: the power of what is hidden.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
