Santiago, Chile, 1967 — Painting · Sculpture · Heritage
Pablo Román
For over thirty years, his work has remained outside the commercial circuit, held in private collections across the Americas and Europe.
The same hand that restored El Escorial has quietly built a body of work of its own.
Selected works
Terracotta sculpture · Artist’s collection
PR–001
Mixed media on canvas · Artist’s collection
PR–002
Wood sculpture · Artist’s collection
PR–003
Most of the archive remains unpublished. Only a selection is shown.
Monumental restoration
Few hands in the world have worked on El Escorial. The practice of conservation, a respect for matter and for time, runs through his own work as well.
Restoration of the dome, Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
MADRID
Direction of the relocation of the Columbus Monument
MADRID
Restoration of the sculptural relief, National Museum of Fine Arts
SANTIAGO
Head of Heritage, Hospital del Salvador
SANTIAGO
EL ESCORIAL · PROCESS
EL ESCORIAL · PROCESS
COLUMBUS MONUMENT · RELOCATION, MADRID
COLUMBUS MONUMENT · DETAIL, MADRID
Lineage
Third generation of a family of artists: grandson of sculptor Samuel Román, Chile’s National Art Prize laureate.
The craft arrived by inheritance and became a vocation of his own. From his grandfather, sculptor Samuel Román, he learned a direct relationship with matter; from writer Raúl Morales, the conviction that every work is also a form of memory.
That double root explains a career that never separated creating from conserving: sculpture and painting as intimate creation, restoration as a dialogue with those who created before.
Access to the archive
The artist’s complete dossier — extended biography, works and restoration record — is available upon request for press, curators and institutions.
SANTIAGO, CHILE — MADRID
Pablo Roman 