Santiago de Paoli Riding Hot

For his second exhibition at the gallery, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff presents Riding Hot, a solo exhibition by Santiago de Paoli, unfolding across two venues in Paris: Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Abraham & Wolff.

This enigmatic and surreal title is borrowed from a series of paintings made using a variety of unconventional materials: wood, copper, cork stoppers, dried leaves, and even peanuts. Santiago de Paoli continues his painterly exploration, in which images seem to emerge from a dream or a fragmentary memory populated by moons, landscapes, bodies, domestic objects, and organic forms. Oscillating between nature, magic, and abstraction, these elements are permeated by a constant tension between humour, poetry, and strangeness. Riding Hot brings together a new body of monumental works, presented for the first time. The exhibition marks a new stage in the artist’s practice, in which the materiality of the works becomes an increasingly open field of experimentation.

Biography
Born in Buenos Aires in 1978, Santiago de Paoli lives and works in New York.
Recent solo exhibitions include Inside the Red Barn at OSMOS Station (2022); A leaf in the wind at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris-Romainville (2021); Bebê Rasteja at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2019–2020); Entre nosotros y el objetoat Móvil (2016); Pescado y Papas at Wireless Ridge (2015); and The New Society at Swan Coach House Gallery (2007).

His work has also been presented in numerous group exhibitions, including at Site SANTA FE 12th International (2025), the X Museum (2021), the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2019), the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Paloma (2018), the Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart (2018), and Lulu Gallery (2017).