Pedro Barbeito
Pedro Barbeito's work investigates how painting can engage with digital imaging technologies, and how this relationship can alter and expand the history and language of painting. Some of the digital domains that he's explored in his work are scientific and astronomical visualizations in relation to perspectival space and abstraction (Science/Astronomy Series), video game imagery in relation to historical landscape painting (Video Game/Landscape Series), 2D and 3D software programs in relation to cubism (Cubism/Digital Imaging Series) and pop culture and news media imagery in relation to a history of war imagery in painting (Pop Violence Series). Barbeito is interested in how these worlds can merge, expanding the semiotics of space while providing a more complex and reflective experience of our contemporary society, one that believes in innovation yet also wants to hold on to its past.
Barbeito has exhibited his work internationally. Solo exhibition venues include 101/Exhibit in LA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York, Mario Diacono Gallery in Boston, Parra-Romero Gallery in Madrid, Charest-Weinberg Gallery in Miami, and Galerie Richard in Paris. He has participated in group exhibits at the Rose Art Museum in Massachusetts; the Museum of Modern Art …
Pedro Barbeito's work investigates how painting can engage with digital imaging technologies, and how this relationship can alter and expand the history and language of painting. Some of the digital domains that he's explored in his work are scientific and astronomical visualizations in relation to perspectival space and abstraction (Science/Astronomy Series), video game imagery in relation to historical landscape painting (Video Game/Landscape Series), 2D and 3D software programs in relation to cubism (Cubism/Digital Imaging Series) and pop culture and news media imagery in relation to a history of war imagery in painting (Pop Violence Series). Barbeito is interested in how these worlds can merge, expanding the semiotics of space while providing a more complex and reflective experience of our contemporary society, one that believes in innovation yet also wants to hold on to its past.
Barbeito has exhibited his work internationally. Solo exhibition venues include 101/Exhibit in LA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York, Mario Diacono Gallery in Boston, Parra-Romero Gallery in Madrid, Charest-Weinberg Gallery in Miami, and Galerie Richard in Paris. He has participated in group exhibits at the Rose Art Museum in Massachusetts; the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, The Netherlands; The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Florida; the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, Salon 94 Gallery in NY, ACME Gallery in LA and Whitechapel Gallery in London among others. His exhibits have been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Art on Paper, The Village Voice, Artpulse, Frieze, Art/Text, Art Nexus, Examiner.com as well as many other publications and periodicals in the US and Europe. His work is in numerous public and private collections.
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