Born in 1965 in Lima, Perú
Living and working between Ciudad de México, Madrid and Lima
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
- Creo Recordar, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
- Soy el aire, soy el sol, Centro Interpretativo Guachimontones “Phil Weigand”, Guadalajara, Jalisco
- It was fun for a while, Spazio Nuovo, Rome
- That Elusive Sentiment at Madison Gallery, Solana Beach, California
- Soy el aire, soy el sol, Museo del Barro, Metepec
- Adjust the Blinds, solo duo exhibition with Fernanda Caballero, 193 Gallery in Paris.
- Soy el aire, soy el sol, Museo Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza/Centro regional de Cultura, Valle de Bravo, México.
- Hotel Felicidad, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid.
- Everything you want to know about us but were afraid to ask. Galería Colector, Monterrey, México.
- Too late to die young ICPNAcultural _ Miraflores, Lima.
- Songs for Fernanda, Galería Nueveochenta, Bogotá.
- Lat/Long Centro de las Artes Monterrey, México.
- Modeling Matter, Galerie ISA, Mumbai.
- RAW, Sala Luis Miró Quesada, Lima.
- 51% + 24/4 , Galería Nueveochenta, Bogotá.
- Golden Years, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid.
- Purple, Art & Public / Cabinet PH, Geneva, Switzerland
- Approaching Silence, Galería CASADO SANTAPAU,Madrid, Spain
- 2013 RIVOTRILANHEDONIA Galeria IDEOBOX Miami, USA
- Portal, intervencion en la iglesia Santa Clara, Bogota, Colombia.
- Intervencion en el Palazzo Pamphilij , Roma, Italia
- My Better Half, Galeria Spazio Nuovo, Roma, Italia
- Se que te mueres por mi Lucia de la Puente Gallery, Lima, Peru
- I´ve Lost Control Again, James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, USA.
- Hip ahora, mañana who knows, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain.
- What if?, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu/Seúl, Corea.
- Oh! Sweet Nuthin ́, Galería OMR, Mexico City.
- More Than This, Sonja Roesch Gallery / Houston, TX, USA.
- Solo project, Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah Arena, Dubai, Arab Emirates.
- Solo project, Pinta Art Fair, London.
- Here we are now, entertain us, Nueveochenta, Bogota, Colombia.
- Too drunk to fuck, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London, UK.
- Vanishing act, Fifi Projects, New York, USA.
- Two Black Monoliths, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Erase Memory, Centro de las Artes, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico.
- How Does It Feel? Galeria Dabbah-Torrejón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- It must be nice to disappear, Galería OMR, Mexico City.
- I Feel So Extraordinary, Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
- I’ll Be Your Mirror, Galería Dabbah-Torrejón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Mch Pintura blanca para galerías, Proyecto Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. 1998
- Gato por liebre, Galería Forum, Lima, Peru.
- Flúor, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey Mexico.
- Simulacro, Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Peru.
- Savia, sabia, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey Mexico.
- Solo show, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey Mexico.
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
- 12 + 10: Arte Contemporáneo del Perú, Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid
- Lengua Bárbara, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid.
- The Abstract Cabinet, Eduardo Secci Contemporary,Florence.
- Blue Monday, Chaparro Studio Exhibition Space, Ciudad de México.
- Modelling Matter, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India.
- Shaping Space, Galerie ISA , Mumbai, India
- Melancolía, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Modern Sculpture, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, España.
- ST, Galería Lucía de La Puente, Lima
- Deconstruction – Reconstruction, Art & Public/Cabinet P.H. Geneva
- The State of Parenthesis, FIFI projects, San Pedro, Garza-García, México.
- Natures Mortes I, FIFI Projects, San Pedro, Garza-García, México.
- Quinquenio, Galeria Nueveochenta, Bogotá, Colombia.2011
- The Space Between Now and Then, Galería OMR y el52, Mexico City, Mexico.
- [sic], OMR, Mexico City.
- This is not an invitation it’s a presentation, el52, Mexico City.
- Sueño de casa propia, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Plataform for urban investigation, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City.
- Sin titulo, Intervención en el concierto de The Killers y otros grupos, Mexico City.
- Rock my illusion, Cordoba, Spain.
- Los nuevos leones, Monterrey, Mexico. Evento social, Galería de Arte Mexicano.
- Foro sur, Intervención en el centro de Caceres, Spain.
- Little Did he Know, Intervención en la Casa Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Show me, Show me, Show me, Intervenciones de artistas de la Galería Luis Adelantado en el Hotel Condesa df, Mexico City.
- Cuarteto de fantasía, videos, Museo Experimental El ECO, Mexico City.
- Limbo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Tenemos el Duchamp… Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City.
- Is anybody out there?, Product must have Objects, Mexico City.
- We are nothing but the nerds they say we are, Curatorship and exhibition in collaboration with Mauricio Limón, Mexico City.
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
- Coartadas alibis, witte de with, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Casa comida y sustento, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City.
- Asamblea, Centro Cultural de México, Paris, France.
- Sala de recuperación, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Tercer Festival de Arte Sonoro, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Segundo Festival de Arte Sonoro, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Bienal de Lima, Lima, Peru.
- Kilómetros de desplazamiento para una exposición Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Bubble, 527 Gallery, Houston TX, USA.
- Fit In, Hotel Los Virreyes, Monterrey, Mexico.
- El retrato como excusa, BF15, Monterrey, Mexico.
- Cuarta Bienal de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
- Centro de Lima, Bienal de Lima, Lima, Peru.
- De acá, Art Deposit, Monterrey, Mexico.
- Laberinto, 527 Gallery, Houston, TX, USA.
- Tercera Bienal Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
- Hacia la abstracción, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico.
- Group Show, Andrew Mumery Gallery, London, UK
- Entre trópicos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas,Venezuela.
Collections
- The Jumex Foundation (Mexico)
- Coppel Collection (Mexico)
- The CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami – U.S)
- The Helga de Alvear Museum (Cáceres – Spain)
- Simon de Pury (London – U.K.)
- Douglas Baxter’s Collection ( New York – U.S.)
- Domenico de Sole Collection (Hilton Head, US.)
- Colección Guler Sabanci, (Istambul, Turquia)
- Pierre Huber Collection (Switzerland)
- Jorge Pérez Collection (Miami, US.)
- Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte Americano (ICPNA) / Collection (Lima – Peru)
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) / Collection (Lima – Peru)
- Museo de Arte de Sinaloa (MASIN) / Collection (Culiacan – Mexico)
The show unites brings together a selection of new jobs of divergent practices into a conversation surrounding reinvention, permanence, and materiality.
Rather than an unsubtle or literal framing of glue as a common adhesive, the presentation considers the artist as a kind of binding agent who possesses an alchemical capacity to forge something unprecedented out of seemingly disparate materials— and to unite families and chosen communities. Such processes of renewal invoke a range of formal and conceptual concerns while embracing novel approaches to assemblage, collage, painting, and sculpture.
Aldo Chaparro is a Mexican artist peruvian born (1965, Lima). His work is based on the interactions between different materials and disciplines; from curatorship, film, public art, architecture, industrial and edito- rial design (Editorial Celeste, Mexico, 2000- 2014), to music, sculpture, painting, installation, and so on.
This tendency to jump from one language to another has gene- rated in him a constant concern about the processes in art and the connection that these disciplines have with broader areas of socie- ty. In this way, his work has become a testimony of various proces- ses, discarding in some way the idea that the value ofthe work is in the resulting object and its strict relationship with the art world.
Chaparro currently has studios in Mexico (Mexico City, Valle de Bravo, and Monterrey), Peru (lima), Spain (Madrid), and the united States (los Angeles). He distributes his time among them, seeking to generate a more intimate and deep connection with the cities where he develops his projects.
His work is part of important collections around the world. likewise, his Window Displays project in each of his studios has gradually become an important platform and benchmark for young artists in each city where he works.
Chaparro is enlivened by its eclecticism, celebrating the artist’s drive towards experimentation, newness, and of course, hotness.