Néstor Augusto Turallas, aka Falopapas, is an Argentine visual artist born in La Plata in 1979, and currently based in Miami, FL. He has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of La Plata, where he also been teaching “Visual Language II” section since 2006.

He has dedicated himself to painting and public art since 2005. He has had five solo shows: Víctimas del baile (2013), Stalk (2015), Sexting (2016), Wanted (2018), plus a show with live interventions ar the Cariló Arte Contemporáneo gallery (2019). He participated in the following art festivals: Ciudad Alterna (La Plata, 2014), Kings de Arte (Buenos Aires, 2015), Provincia Emergente (La Plata, 2017, 2018 and 2019), Emergente CABA (Buenos Aires, 2019), and Rock en Baradero (2019), among others. He also did setting designs for the Picurba food festival in La Plata (2014, 2015), and for the VIP section at concerts by Aerosmith (2016), Ed Sheeran (2017) and Depeche Mode (2018) at the Estadio Único in La Plata; as well as a performance for the Surfrider Foundation Argentina at the Personal Fest (2017). He designed the corporate image for Festival Nuestro (2018) at Tecnopolis, and the covers for the vinyl reissue of Andrés Calamaro’s first two albums (Hotel Calamaro and Vida Cruel). He performed live in Duki’s music video for “Goteo live session”, as well as making a series of urban interventions in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Cordoba Mendoza, Santa Fe, Tucuman, Parana, Entre Rios, Salta and San Juan. In 2018, he painted one of the largest murals in New York, approximately 400 square meters, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In 2019, he was named “Outstanding Cultural Personality” by the City Council of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province.



works

  • x10 Cometin, Motomiami and 17 Pictures of Jolt Radio

    “True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.” - Florence King.

    Falopapas’ nostalgia packed works cleverly mix a pop aesthetic with a street-art feel. His murals and paintings show artistic leanings towards concepts found in TV, comics and disruptive photography of the 1960s, and are in line with the iconography of Latin American pop culture. Compositionally created to resemble collages, these works are playful and yet powerfully reminiscent of a time of youthful idealism.

  • X10 Cometin (2022)

    Acrylic on Wood Panel w/ clear Epoxy Resin

    38” x 44.5”

  • Motomiami (2022)

    Acrylic on Wood Panel w/ clear Epoxy Resin

    38 x 50 w frame

  • 17 Pictures of Jolt Radio (2022)

    Photograph on archival paper mounted on plexiglass over aluminum

    104” x 12”