Name: c r i s t i á n p i e t r a p i a n a - NOVALEPSIS -
Start: 2026-03-18T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-18T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 128 Rivington St、New York, NY, United States, New York 10002

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- NOVALEPSIS -

Exhibition: March 17-29, 2026
Opening: March 18, 5-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 1-6 pm

(n.) The sudden, overwhelming realization of how fragile everything in life is, filling you with both gratitude and a trembling vulnerability.
Gallery Onetwentyeight is pleased to present -NOVALEPSIS- by artist Cristián Pietrapiana on view from March 17 through March 29, 2026.
Bringing together works developed over several art residencies during the last four years, the exhibition traces Pietrapiana’s practice through drawing, painting and mixed media through the overarching theme of the relations between humans and the environment.

Bio
Originally from Buenos Aires, Pietrapiana is an independent visual artist that lives and works in New York City. His work explores the vulnerability of human nature and its environment mainly through painting, drawing and mix media. If a particular project requires it, he includes performance action videos and assemblage objects.
Pietrapiana has been awarded the Sheldon Bergh Award, selected by the NYC DOT Art Program to create a site specific outdoors installation in LIC, Queens, the LTA Program of the Guggenheim Museum, Byrdcliiﬀe Residency Program, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Transborder Art at Governors Island, Chashama, etc. His work has been exhibited at CultureLab, Yale Universtiy, Exit Art NY, Centro Cultural Virla-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, AES Gallery NY, Local Project, The Argentine Consulate in NYC, El Bodegón Cultural de Los Vilos Art Center in Chile and Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, among other venues, it is also part of the Pfizer Corporate Collection, The Springfield Museum of Art, The Ñande Mac Museum, and private collectors. For over ten years he has been incorporating the urgency of our climate crisis into his practice, organizing exhibitions and workshops in order to create awareness.
www.pietrapiana.net iG: @cristianpietrapiana

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