23/05/2026
“Every pigment has a particular behaviour once it binds with oil. I respect the nature of each mineral and the role that it plays on the canvas.” – Paolo Salvador
Central to .salvador’s practice is a deeply tactile and intuitive approach to painting. Combining traditional painting techniques with experimental material processes, he works with clay-based pigments, natural resins, and handwoven textiles to create living surfaces shaped through rhythm, gesture, and the physicality of the materials.
Drawing on mythologies, oral traditions, ancestral histories, and the biodiversity of the Amazon and Andes, his works unfold as shifting spaces where body, landscape, spirit, and ecology remain fluid. Naked figures, spectral animals, and saturated fields of colour suggest unstable relationships between humans, animals, and symbolic forms.
Paolo Salvador’s solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer, Madrid, is on view until 25 July.
Photos © Roberto Ruiz