In celebration of its tenth anniversary, Fundación La Nave Salinas, a number one establishment devoted to showcasing modern artwork, is happy to announce Picnic, a present of current large-format work by artist Pedro Pedro (b. 1986). Opening on Saturday, August 16, 2025, the exhibition can be held on the basis’s everlasting area in Ibiza and can stay on view by October 31, 2025. That is the artist’s most bold physique of labor up to now and was created specifi cally for exhibition on the basis’s historic stone constructing, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Artwork-historical echoes run by Pedro Pedro’s work. Like seventeenth Century vanitas masters, Pedro phases luxuriant bouquets, extravagant meals platters, jewellery, timepieces, and different emblems of passing time. But the place conventional vanitas masters urged viewers to “bear in mind you could die” (memento mori), Pedro fl ips the script to “bear in mind to reside” (memento vivere). Every lemon slice, half-eaten tart, or toppled wine glass isn’t a warning about mortality, however a luminous reminder to inhabit the current with curiosity, pleasure and delight.
“Pedro Pedro’s work instantly transports you to a world of heightened senses and joyful bliss,” says Lio Malca, founding father of Fundación La Nave Salinas. “His capability to remodel the on a regular basis into one thing so completely delectable makes Picnic an excellent subsequent chapter in our summer season program at La Nave, inviting viewers to please themselves in his distinctive imaginative and prescient.”
Pedro Pedro started portray at age 20 as a technique to cross time whereas within the hospital for a surgical procedure. There, he found the colourful eff ect of making use of textile paint to unprimed linen, now his favored technique. Over time, he has developed a really distinctive type, recognizable at a look, carrying a complicated degree of technical precision. His topics are lit with a surreal high quality, and are barely exaggerated in scale and perspective, recalling the bulbous types of Fernando Botero. His newer dessert work draw an infl uence from the nice Wayne Thiebaud, one in all Pedro’s favourite artists.
In Picnic, Pedro phases a luxurious alfresco feast throughout fi fteen new canvases. Beneath their exuberant surfaces lies a delicate homage to the Nineteen Fifties, by the depiction of mid‑century furnishings and aesthetic, a lens by which Pedro critiques the relentless tempo of 2025. In an age defi ned by nonstop notifi cations and doom‑scroll headlines, Pedro invitations us again to a time when folks savored the current second.
“Pedro’s work embody what artwork ought to realize,” notes Isaac Malca, Director of Fundación La Nave Salinas. “They captivate at fi rst look, and on nearer inspection off er a considerate commentary on the world and time we inhabit.”
