Pablo Benzo Brings ‘Time Traveler’ to The Hole in Tribeca

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Summary

  • Pablo Benzo debuts in New York at The Hole Tribeca with ‘Time Traveler and Other Fragile Detours’
  • His cubist-inspired works merge figures, plants and objects in layered, surreal interiors

Next Friday, The Hole gallery in Tribeca will debut a new solo exhibition by Berlin-based Chilean painter Pablo Benzo, titled *Time Traveler and Other Fragile Detours*. The show includes five new paintings and six works on paper, all inspired by Peggy Guggenheim’s influential 1940s gallery, *Art of This Century*, which first brought Surrealism and Cubism to New York audiences.

Benzo’s art builds on the traditions of experimental artists, but uses a subtle color scheme of greens, yellows, pinks, and blues. He creates three-dimensional forms with textured oil paints, often blending abstract and representational elements. His paintings depict interiors as theatrical spaces where people, plants, and objects seem to merge together. A common element in his work is the “pancake plant,” which adds a sense of visual harmony with its round leaves.

Okay, so I’ve been checking out this artist, Benzo, and his work is seriously cool. There’s this one piece with a woman looking out from her living room, and next to her is a painting *inside* the painting – it’s this nude in the style of Modigliani, which is a neat touch. He does a lot with furniture, like couches and people, blending them together into these curvy, almost playful shapes. What really gets me is how he messes with perspective, creating these ‘pictures within pictures’ that kind of remind me of early Cubism, but he calls it something else – a ‘sensory inheritance,’ which sounds pretty deep. It’s like he’s building on old ideas but making them his own.

The exhibition is on view through October 11.

The Hole
86 Walker St.
New York, NY 10013

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2025-09-22 20:56