Pablo Comadrán

SCULPTOR · MENDOZA, ARGENTINA

Pablo Comadrán is a renowned visual artist and sculptor from Mendoza, Argentina, with an intuitive, sensitive eye. His work begins where others see waste: beams from century-old wineries, quebracho sleepers that once held railway tracks, barrels that have already given their wine, old vine stocks, forgotten trunks, roots breaking through the street. In each piece he finds a story, and a form waiting to emerge.

This is not recycling. In his three workshops in Mendoza, Pablo listens to the material (the grain, the knots, the cracks, the marks of time) and lets the form come from there. The result is spheres carved from burls and roots that keep the bark and cracks of the tree, large-scale sculpture, furniture and objects. Every one is unique, made to converse with the space it inhabits.

Interior designers, collectors and architecture studios seek him out for his singular hand, and some of Mendoza’s finest wineries hold his pieces. In the Uco Valley, the olive-wood tables at Salentein Cocina de Origen are his work, made hand in hand with the winery’s co-owner, Frederike Pon. At Susana Balbo Winemaker’s House, the boutique hotel in Chacras de Coria that is part of Relais & Châteaux, his pieces inhabit the common areas.

He took part in the Conexión arteBA 2025 exhibition at Terrazas de los Andes. He has also exhibited in Raíces (Galería Killka, Bodega Salentein, 2019), at the Feria de Arte de Mendoza, at Piazza Casa de Arte and at Art. Collective (2023). His sculpture Orígenes (2024) was born from a chinaberry (paraíso) root burl.

His work has also travelled the world, carrying the warmth of rescued wood.

Pablo doesn’t just work wood: he interprets it and turns it into art.