Juan Pablo Mapeto “Unstable”

Juan Pablo Mapeto, born and raised in Concepción, Chile- has walked many paths literally and metaphysically.

Having been immersed in the world of art since childhood, he started out as a self-taught artist exploring drawing, graffiti and the local music scene. His passion for artistic expression led him to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he pursued a bachelors degree in visual arts. Since then, painting became his main medium, taking him on a journey across borders, and exhibiting his work in numerous countries.

In 2021, in São Paulo, Mapeto founded Proyeto Prismas, an initiative dedicated to the documentation and unification of artistic processes among Latin American artists he met on this journey. The project has held exhibitions in São Paulo, Mexico City, and New York, all curated by him. In recent years, Mapeto has been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors, including participation in the Tijuana Triennial: I International Pictorial (Mexico), a solo exhibition at Galeria Gruta in São Paulo, and contributions to collective exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Mexico City, and New York City.

For this show, Mapeto presents oil paintings in which light takes the main role.

These are waves, networks, rhizomes updated and rendered into oil paintings that assimilate chaos and order in its process, creating images of balanced anarchic structures that propose infinite subjective connections and possibilities, ‘Chaosmosis’.

These paintings start with a written word that is “tagged” in the canvas and unwinds into networks that communicate without hierarchy, in a broader way that the written language could not.

Curated by Lucas Cabu