Pablo Echaurren

Title

Pablo Echaurren

Description

Pablo Echaurren was born in Rome in 1951. He started to paint at the age of 18, inspired by Gianfranco Baruchello, and was soon discovered by the critic and gallerist Arturo Schwarz, who promoted his work in Italy and abroad. His work was initially characterized by a certain minimalism, with a conceptual approach and a rejection of pictorial conventions, offering an alternative to the idea of the work of art as fetish. Since then, he has always been looking for new languages and new forms of expression, never resting on his laurels. 

Not just a painter, he has engaged in a wide range of activities, such as illustrations, writing, as well as the creation of “metacomics” that investigate the possible relationship between avant-garde and popular art, seeking that necessary and fertile short-circuit between “high” and “low,” culture and frivolity. His work has been presented in numerous museums. Among the most recent exhibitions: Contropittura(La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma 2015-2016) and Du champ magnétique(Scala Contarini del Bovolo, Venezia 2017), Pablo Echaurren(Mart, Rovereto 2019).

Creator

Echaurren, Pablo

Collection Items

Artisti coraggiosi. Natura morta - 2
The unrealised project Artisti coraggiosi proposed by Pablo Echaurren in 1974 to Galleria La Margherita in Rome, involved the participation of the artist who, seating at a table inside the bare spaces of the gallery, equipped with papers, scissors…

Rouge Selavy
Rouge Selavy is the title of a work that Echaurren designed in 1977, a fundamental year because on that very date the artist decided to (temporarily) abandon art to devote himself to politics. The artist writes with a blue pen over a lined notebook…

En attendant la mariée
The project consists of a combined installation of two spinning wheels that move a system of threads, the threads descend from a chrysalis attached to the ceiling. The quote is clear and obvious. In fact, Echaurren mentions the famous ready-made of…

Monumento Fortuito
Pablo Echaurren's project, like many others, is elaborated through notes written in blue pen on a page of a squared notebook. The artist's intent is already clear from the title "Monumento Fortuito". In fact, in 2015 the artist plans to create a…

Mon Alice
Mon Alice is a small plastic sculpture measuring a few centimeters (8 x 4 x 3 cm); it is a maquette for a larger sculpture designed by Echaurren in 2018.The sculpture represents Alice in Wonderland in the Disney version, the one now ingrained in the…

Looking for a Rembrandt
This work by Echaurren also reflects some Duchampian elements and echoes. The unrealized project depicts a bronze sculpture of a monkey holding an iron with its right hand: if the animal is adherent to all the artist's work declined to the universe…
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