Riding hot

For his third exhibition at the gallery, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff presents Riding hot, a solo exhibition by Santiago de Paoli, unfolding across two venues in Paris: Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Abraham & Wolff.

I am an animal that has the face and shape of a human, but it is deceiving this façade. I paint the painting I want to paint, and then we see.

(Robespierre)

Sensuality and physicality, Santiago de Paoli’s pictures have both intensively, but nothing about it is intrusive, too much or pornographic. His figures - just recognizable as such - are painted in different shades of red and colors and skins, they suggest body openings and sexual characteristics, they are not Picasso-like cannibalistic intertwined, but physically relate to each other. Nothing is brutally declined, but nothing is left blurred in the approximate.

De Paoli, born in Buenos Aires in 1978, masters the fine balance between abstraction and formulation. A certain naivety also plays a role, it is touching in a way that is rarely expected or allowed in art. Painting is one that you can talk about in Santiago de Paoli's art and also be amazed, the other is the disarming openness of his pictures. They are vulnerable like a cracked shell. No, like one that has opened.