Por amor al comercio takes its title from Esclarecidos’ homonymous third album released in 1987. This song, which Pedro sang with delight and fervor introduces a sense of joy, frivolity and revelry which in his work does not translate as levity, but as a profound commitment to the surfaces of the world.

Many of the works in this exhibition overlap techniques and materials, some of them standard and some others invented by Pedro himself. The warmth of light, the viscosity of wax and the brightness of paillettes do not hold still. They catch light and attention, and we dazzle with them.

Maybe that’s one of the reason why most of these works remain untitled: in them, the passing of time is not a transient condition, but a continuous ripple to our unfinished affairs.

Spanning the making of shoes, sewing patterns, or the assemblage of engineering planes, Pedro developed an aesthetic grammar in which patronaje is not a method of projection and anticipation but a structure of fantasy. His…