Aldo Chaparro: Are we still pretending this is not about us?

Known for his explorations of materiality, perception, and the body, Chaparro's work occupies a space of tension — a liminal zone where matter meets emotion, and form balances between control and surrender. Through a powerful combination of sculpture and painting, the exhibition invites visitors to reconsider their relationship with the world around them, not as distant observers, but as active, entangled participants.
At the heart of the exhibition are Chaparro’s striking totemic sculptures — carved, polished, or fractured metal forms that rise like ancient-futuristic monoliths. These structures embody a dynamic energy: geometric yet unpredictable, grounded yet transcendent. They appear as “living columns,” vibrating with presence, as if drawn from the subconscious yet rooted in physical experience.
In contrast, Chaparro’s paintings operate as meditative surfaces in flux. Composed of repeated gestures, minimal marks, and layered chromatic fields, they evoke the rhythms of internal ecosystems or the silent unfolding of natural processes. Color settles and spreads like fog, like breath, like memory. Each canvas reveals the artist’s ongoing dialogue with transformation — through folding, smoothing, erasing, and accumulation.  In this body of work, the environment is never passive. It acts, resists, and reflects. Much like our current global condition, it remains beautiful, chaotic, structured, and volatile all at once.

More than an exhibition, Are we still pretending this is not about us? is a call — to attention, to presence, to recognition. It questions the illusion of separation between ourselves and the environments we inhabit, proposing instead a sensitivity of perception: a way of seeing the world as something we are inherently part of.