Urban Nomad Collection (2024)

Pipa’s work is shaped by transformation. A true urban nomad, he moves between Buenos Aires and Barcelona with fluency, developing a visual language grounded in cities that are never finished and are constantly expanding. Born the son of a gaucho in Argentina, his early visual memory was formed by the open horizontality of the pampas — earthy colour, vast space and restraint — before being disrupted by the dense rhythms of Buenos Aires.

In the city, Pipa absorbed culture at street level: tango, political tension, movement, noise. These forces left a lasting imprint, teaching him to experience the city as energy. That awareness sharpened further in the early 1990s, when he relocated to Barcelona at the height of its Olympic transformation. As scaffolding rose and neighbourhoods were dismantled and rebuilt, Pipa was drawn to the chaos and disorder. A city under construction revealed itself as honest — exposed, unresolved and alive.

“Art is a reflection of a city’s soul. It’s not the buildings or the streets that define a place — it’s the energy that moves through it.”

Colour carries the weight of Pipa’s work. Bold blues and deep garnet tones collide and overlap, echoing the visual pressure of urban life. Grounded in abstract expressionism and informed by the immediacy of street culture, his compositions play with chaos in balance without attempting to resolve it. Colour operates as force, friction and rhythm.

Pipa’s work captures moments of transition, where beauty and disruption coexist and stillness briefly surfaces within movement. The city emerges as a living system — unstable, energetic, and perpetually in motion.