Engaging his background as a professional skateboarder, Nicolas explores Berlin through the materiality of the city’s surfaces and his encounters with the city at street level. Translating his experiences into intuitive action painting, interventions on found objects, participatory projects, and photography, Nicolas asks us all to retrace our steps back to a child-like wonder at the world.

ARTIST BIO:

Nicolas Cespedes is a Peruvian artist currently based in São Paulo, Brazil. His work addresses modern society’s unnatural habits, emphasizing the impacts on mental, physical and environmental health. Using a variety of materials and intuitive techniques, Nicolas creates works that feel very impulsive and free.

The gestural markings, rescued materials and non-traditional techniques in his practice portray the reality of the streets of downtown Latin American cities where he spent most of his time as a professional skateboarder. This informal environment he creates wishes to reach into the core of the spectators’ soul and connect with them in that state of purity.