Pabli Stein
Bio
Pabli Stein lives and works in Buenos Aires. Born into a family dedicated to women’s clothing manufacturing and marketing, his approach to this universe began to develop alongside his early interest in painting. Today, Pabli Stein’s work explores fashion’s language of signs and advertising through a pictorial language translated into paintings, collages, or videos.
At the outset of his career, he took part for three consecutive years (2010-2012) of Proyecto-A Award aimed at supporting young artists. Among his exhibitions, the following stand out: REAL FAKE at Centro Cultural San Martín (Buenos Aires, 2022), El ojo en la boca at Quimera Galería (Buenos Aires, 2021), his first solo show in Europe La Piel Traslúcida (Translucent Skin) at Galería Haimney (Barcelona, 2019), Form as a Context, a group show with international artists at Frost Museum (Miami, 2017). His works were also presented in several international fairs such as arteBa, SCOPE, Art Toronto, Art Lima and Cosmoscow.
Statement
My work explores the conflict between what is exposed and what is hidden. It is developed among the fields of painting, collage, and video.
My works are nurtured by photographs related to fashion and advertising aesthetics. The search begins in printed magazines where the female figure is presented either in full, as a detail, or just as a trace. If one of them looks too obvious, I discard it.I make direct use of cut- outs in collage, but in painting, I translate those images to the canvas dimensions. Afterwards, I gradually pour gestures on it: tearing, veiling, scratching, filling, sweeping, spieling, or dripping.
I superimpose color layers as if they were layers of meaning until the original figure becomes blurred. At the end the image gets submerged in a query and, in contrast, the pictorial language raises almost like other character. In these times where everything is exposed.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
