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Alejandro Piñeiro Bello in Conversation with Inti Guerrero

Saturday, Sep 20, 2025
11 AM
12/F, H Queen's
80 Queen's Road Central
Hong Kong

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Alejandro Piñeiro Bello in Conversation with Inti Guerrero
Saturday, Sep 20, 2025
11 AM
12/F, H Queen's
80 Queen's Road Central
Hong Kong

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On the occasion of Alejandro Piñeiro Bello’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Pace Live is pleased to present a conversation between the artist and the curator and educator Inti Guerrero at Pace’s H Queen’s gallery on Saturday, September 20.

Their discussion will focus on the new nightscape paintings that Piñeiro Bello is debuting in Solo Quiero Soñar (I Just Want to Dream), on view at Pace in Hong Kong from September 18 to October 18. Exploring the unreality—the surreal, lyrical, and mysterious dimensions—of nighttime, these works reflect Piñeiro Bello’s deep and enduring interest in the beauty, chaos, and uncanniness of the natural world.

Inti Guerrero

Inti Guerrero is a Berlin-based curator and educator, currently PhD supervisor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He was the co-Artistic Director of Ten Thousand Suns: the 24th Biennale of Sydney, tutor of the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts- KASK, Ghent (2021-2023); Artistic Director of bap - bellas artes projects in the Philippines (2018-2022); the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate, London (2016-2020); Curator of the 38th EVA International, Limerick (2018); co-curator of Dakar Biennale, La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain (2018); and Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San Jose (2011-2014).

As an independent curator he curated or co-curated the exhibitions: Myth Makers, Sunpride Foundation - Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2022); Institute for Tropical and Galactical Studies in Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama Museum of Art; Ming Wong. Your Special Island at CCP Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila (2019); Long Green Lizards at Dakar Biennale, La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, Dakar’ (2018); Fraccionar at Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City (2018); Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs (touring at MCAD, Manila, Para Site, Hong Kong, and Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, 2016-2017); Afterwork (touring at Para Site, Hong Kong; and ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur, 2016-2017); The World is Our Home. A Poem on Abstraction, Para Site, Hong Kong (2015); A Chronicle of Interventions, Tate Modern, London (2014); A Transatlantic Affair. Josephine Baker and Le Corbusier, Museum of Art of Rio-MAR in Rio de Janeiro (2014); A Journal of the Plague Year (touring at Para Site, Hong Kong; The Cube, Taipei; Arko Art Center, Seoul; and Kadist Art Foundation and The Lab, San Francisco; 2013-2015); The City of the Naked Man, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2011); Light Years. Cristina Lucas (touring at Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid; Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City; and Museo Amparo, Puebla 2010-2011); Flying Down to Earth (touring at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo; and FRAC Lorraine, 2009-2010); Duet for Cannibals at Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Eppur si Muove, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2009). A.o.

Guerrero has been a tutor, guest professor and lecturer at universities and art schools in Europe, the United States, Asia and Latin America, including: Bard College, New York; CCA-California College for the Arts, San Francisco; Chelsea College for the Arts-University of London; Hong Kong University; and Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, where he co-curated the academic and public programme in 2011. He has also written for exhibition catalogues and journals including Afterall, ArtNexus, Art Asia Pacific, Manifesta Journal, and Metropolis M.

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello paints the enduring spirit of the Caribbean through a practice rooted in identity and memory. Drawing on the local flora and fauna of his hometown and the surrounding land and seascapes of Los Angeles and Miami, Piñeiro Bello implements color, balance, and texture to portray social, cultural, and mythical histories. At the core of his artistic practice is a dedication to his homeland of Cuba, Caribbean diaspora, and surrounding island nations. Piñeiro Bello draws inspiration from the writings of Cuban poets and philosophers, such as José Lezama Lima, José Martí, Virgilio Piñera, and Julián del Casal. He shares a visual language with the artists Wifredo Lam, Manuel Mendive, and Víctor Manuel García Valdés while referencing painters such as Paul Gauguin, Hokusai, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and Wassily Kandinsky throughout his oeuvre. Using traditional materials, such as oil on raw linen, burlap, or hemp, he employs a saturated palette; characteristic vibrant accents of color oscillate between the layers in many of his paintings, highlighting areas of canvas against a deep backdrop. His visual language is defined by ethereal and endless landscapes, folkloric gestures, and the collective imagination of what a new magical Caribbean may reveal. Physical forms and ideals appear on a timeless plane drawn from his memories and dreams.

Piñeiro Bello studied at The National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba (2006–2010), later working as a professor in the Creative Painting department (2010–2011). He was awarded grants from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York in collaboration with Pioneer Works, New York. Piñeiro was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in 2022, and in 2023, he was selected for the artist-in-residence program at the Rubell Museum. Recent exhibitions of his work include Future Past Perfect: Escaping Paradise, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2023); En El Arco Del Caribe, KDR, Miami, Florida (2023–2024), and Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida (2023–2204). His work is held in important collections such as The Brownstone Foundation, Paris; Chrysler Museum Collection, Norfolk, Virginia; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Marquez Art Projects, Miami; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Rubell Museum, Miami; and The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Collection, New York. Piñeiro Bello currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.

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