PEPO MORENO X MAISON S: CATIFES MARIQUES

SEPTEMBER 04
— SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In his second solo show at Galerie Charraudeau “CATIFES MARIQUES ( QUEER RUGS )”, Pepo Moreno offers a very personal response to this issue: ten rugs, unique designer pieces, inspired by his first exhibition, Dimoni, and hand-made produced by Maison S.

Pepo Moreno’s art brut iconography of demons meets the craftsmanship and the elegant design of Sibylle de Tavernost’s team; as a result, through these textiles drawings which enfold the gallery space, the visitor is thrown into Pepo’s inner world, where he can address his worst fears, and best fantasies.

Today Pepo Moreno lives in Paris, and his paintings have grown to become both a mock and a celebration of gay stereotypes in Western pop culture. On the superficial –the aesthetics–, his work explores a myriad of saturated colours using different variations of acrylic painting techniques. Deep down –at heart– it embraces some of the contradictions of the modern queer life experience: from the sheer gayness of being out, proud and simply alive, to the forever young, forever beautiful obsession that often hides the loneliness and isolation of being an outcast.