Dante Mereu is the creator of Juggling Painting, a contemporary painting practice that transforms the language of juggling into a unique pictorial process.
About
Dante Mereu (Argentina, 1977) is a visual artist, juggler, and researcher of new painting techniques. His work emerges from the intersection of two disciplines that have shaped his entire career: abstract painting and the art of juggling.
Following an early artistic education and a professional career as an agricultural engineer, he spent more than two decades working in the field of contemporary circus. As the founder of Kosmos Juggling, he has designed and manufactured juggling equipment used by performers in numerous countries, continuously exploring the relationship between movement, technique, and creativity.
This research led to the development of Juggling Painting, a personal artistic practice that translates the language of juggling into the pictorial process. Using specially modified juggling props, the act of painting is no longer limited to the hand but engages the entire body, integrating technical precision, gravity, rhythm, and chance into the construction of the image. His works investigate the emergence of complex structures, where matter and movement generate compositions that evoke organisms, constellations, and natural systems without relying on figurative representation. Each painting preserves the physical memory of an unrepeatable action, making the creative process an essential part of the finished work.
He currently lives and works in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, where he continues to expand Juggling Painting through new series, large-scale works, and interdisciplinary projects exploring the relationship between movement, matter, and image.
This detail was photographed while I was painting Metal Colors, from the Early Works series.
Rebound balls of different sizes, bearing traces of various colors and pigment mixtures. The Juggling Painting technique requires an in-depth understanding of the materials that strike the paint, as well as the different viscosities and densities of the pigment.
This is how my feet looked after painting Interconnections 02. I usually paint barefoot when working with rebound balls, allowing part of the artwork to be created directly on my body before being transferred to the canvas.