CURRICULUM VITAE STEVEN PETERS CARABALLO EDUCATION 1997 – 2001 Master Degree in Graphical Design (Academy of Fine Arts, Genk, Belgium) RESIDENCIES 2019 Arteventura (27/02 – 16/05) Aracena (SP) EXHIBITIONS Upcoming Gallery De Wael, April 2020, Antwerp, Belgium CAS (Contemporary Art Space) July 2020, Zottegem, Belgium A Butterfly’s Scream, September 2020, Beernem, Belgium Gallery De Wael, Solo show, September 2020, Beernen, Belgium 2020 Syndicate of Belgian Painters (11/01 – 08/03), St Truiden (Belgium), Borgloon (Belgium), Diepenbeek (Belgium) 2019 Re-Search (05/09 – 26/10) Riboli Building Brussels, Belgium Come Closer (13/07 – 29/09) Rekem, Belgium Salon Blanc (15/06) Oostende, Belgium Anouk Vilain Gallery (01/06 – 30/06) Diepenbeek, Belgium Model Staan (03/05 – 01/06) Tielt, Belgium Art-fair @ Quartier Bleu (17/03 – 24/03) Hasselt, Belgium 2018 Dark Rooms (29/10 - 17/12) PAK, Distel, Belgium Art at the Villa (12/10 – 26/08) Kraainem, Belgium Bienale ART-AUTUN, Ce qui pese et ce qui nourrit (07/07 – 26/08) Autun, France CAS (Contemporary Art Space) Kunstroute (17/06 - 01/07) Zottegem, Belgium Behind Closed Doors (16/06 – 15/07) PAK Gistel, Belgium Faces (10/03 – 26/04) Sint-Amandus, Belgium 2017 CAS (Contemporary Art Space) (11/11 – 26/11) Zottegem, Belgium Arture (15/09 – 16/09) Herzele, Belgium Arture (03/06 – 10/06) Herzele, Belgium Inner Mind (129/05 – 30/06) De Haan, Belgium Between Heaven and Earth (23/04 – 25/06) Brugge, Belgium 2016 I Presume (17/11 – 20/11) Dak, Utrecht, Netherlands Drawing Rooms 2 (11/09 – 16/10) PAK Gistel, Belgium The Protagonist (02/04 – 24/04) Wellen, Belgium 2015 Ronse Drawing Prize (Selection) (05/12 – 31/12) De Ververii, Ronse, Belgium Actueel Kunsten Festival (31/10 – 19/11) Heks, Heers, Kuttekove, Wellen, Belgium Text Through Steven Peters Caraballo’s works, classic themes such as the portrait, the still life and the vanitas are again given a chance to distinguish themselves through the magnificence of their simplicity. The act, once again, as contemporary symbols for a lost gaze, an attempt at looking at the surround realist that is affected by an agonising transience and a disoriented attention in the way it is observed. Caraballo’s painted authenticity refers to the fundamental force that is contained in the complexity and beauty of tradition and the too-often almost ineffable merits of the painterly craft. Confronted with his seemingly enticing paintings, a haunting alienation simultaneously permeates our current conditioned habit of unfocused looking. A quiet, different kind of emotional overpowering that can be found only in its materialized form in pertinent painting. .