Pablo Etchepare / 2020
Maria Juanita - Original
The curator’s note: A stately portrait with a beautifully unruly imagination.
A different point of view
Art witha mind ofits own.
For the curious. The collectors. The beautifully unconventional. Discover art that refuses to blend in.
Original works. Independent voices.
01 / A gallery with a point of view
The curator’s
selection.
Eleven works. Five distinct worlds. A personal introduction to the artists and images that make Balloney.
11 selected works Archive
Pablo Etchepare / 2021
Big Otter
The curator’s note: A quiet encounter. An entire world of blue.
Pablo Etchepare / 2009
Turn Me On
The curator’s note: The everyday takes a wonderfully improbable turn.
Pablo Etchepare / 2008
Siamese Dreaming
The curator’s note: A small, suspended theatre of tenderness and tension.
Pablo Etchepare / 2024
Plant Rave (Plantasia)
The curator’s note: An invitation to a stranger, brighter kind of garden.
Pablo Etchepare
Pissed off Batwolf - original
The curator’s note: Part wild creature. Entirely its own character.
Renan Santos
Choking cat
The curator’s note: An intimate encounter with Renan’s curious, finely drawn world.
Renan Santos
Personal Vault
The curator’s note: A private world, held together by extraordinary detail.
Allan Sieber / 2023
Alprazolove
The curator’s note: Love, unease, and a sharp sense of humour.
Gus Lacaz
Skinner Recycling Station
The curator’s note: The visual poetry of an impossible machine.
Fernando Berg
Untitled
The curator’s note: A dense, living world that rewards a closer look.
03 / Programme archive
Enter another world.
Exhibitions and projects from the world of Balloney. Explore the archive and discover the stories behind the artists.
02 / Artists / Balloney programme
Artists / Balloney programme
↗ 46 works listed
Pablo Etchepare
Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist worlds built from pop culture, skateboarding, strange characters and obsessive detail.
↗ 07 works listed
Renan Santos
An interdimensional catalogue of etching, engraving and dry point from Renan Santos’s Inception exhibition.
↗ 03 works listed
Gus Lacaz
A practice that reinvents the everyday, using graphic art and objects to test the strange possibilities of technology.
↗ 03 works listed
Allan Sieber
Brazilian animation, comics and illustration with a sharp, irreverent eye for the absurdities of contemporary life.
↗ 06 works listed
Fernando Berg
The current Balloney collection presents six paintings by Fernando Berg, including Deforastation, Cerrado Chameleon and Blue-crowned Motmot.
04 / About Balloney
Good taste. A healthy disregard for the ordinary.
Balloney is an online gallery based in Toronto, Canada. Our world brings together fine art, pop surrealism and independent voices for people who see things a little differently.
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