Pablo Echaurren biography


Pablo Echaurren painter

Pablo Echaurren is an Italian painter, comic artist, and writer. He was born in Rome in 1951 to the Sicilian actress Angela Faranda and the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Sebastian Matta.
Pablo Echaurren began painting at 18 when, through Gianfranco Baruchello, he came into contact with the Milanese critic and gallerist Arturo Schwarz who began promoting his work in Italy and abroad. Between 1971 and 1975, he held exhibitions in Berlin, Basel, Zurich, Brussels, Philadelphia, New York, and in 1975 he was invited to exhibit at the Paris Biennale.
His artistic production is characterized by continuous experimentation with new forms and languages of expression and by the contamination of genres constantly oscillating between high and low, between culture and frivolity, whose sole objective will always remain the rejection of pictorial conventions and the pursuit of his own ideal of art open to all.
Pablo Echaurren has created posters, illustrations, book covers, including that of the bestseller Porci con le ali.
In the eighties and nineties, he created numerous avant-garde comics such as Caffeina d'Europa, Majakovskij, Nivola vola, Futurismo contro, Vita disegnata di Dino Campana, Evola in Dada, Vita di Pound, Dada con le zecche.
He is also the author of numerous essays, polemical pamphlets on the art world and novels.
In 2004, a retrospective of his works was held at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, while in 2006 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica he held a solo exhibition of his most recent works, which was repeated in 2008 in Siena at the Magazzini del Sale. In 2009, the MIAAO, International Museum of Applied Arts Today, in Turin celebrated the centenary of Futurism with an exhibition focused on his work.
In 2010, the artist, together with his wife Claudia Salaris, founded the Echaurren Salaris Foundation. In 2013, the exhibition Matta: Roberto Sebastian Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark, Pablo Echaurren aims to investigate the ties between a father and his two artist sons.
In 2015, with the exhibition Contropittura, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome explores the socio-political aspects of Pablo Echaurren's work. In 2016, Chile pays tribute to him for the first time with a retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, curated by Inès Ortega-Màrquez and titled Make Art Not Money.
His works are currently in the permanent collection of several museums including the National Gallery, the Maxxi and the Macro in Rome, the Mic in Faenza, the Mart in Rovereto, and the Museo del Novecento in Milan.