VARGAS Lugo

Lugo Vargas (Mexico City, 1968) The work of Pablo Vargas Lugo takes elements of diverse disciplines such as astronomy, cartography or archeology. Through drawings, sculptures, paintings and installations, he develops visual and conceptual games that refer to language, to the conventions of certain measurement systems, to millenary traditions. The artist has developed an elegant visual language of intertwined and abstract motifs that make reference to the landscape, designs found in nature, maps, meteorological diagrams and science fiction.

Combining the super-flat quality of paper with notions of three-dimensionality Vargas Lugo explores the mystery component that encloses writing, understanding as such the universe of signs that make up a language be it that of a word, that of a star map, the one of a landscape, or the one that refers us to ancient notions of the sacred. Through the use of humor the images transform these conventions into mundane elements close to us at the same time common and surprising.

Pablo Vargas Lugo is one of the most solid representatives of contemporary art in Mexico. His work has been exhibited at the Museo Tamayo, the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, the Amparo Museum in Puebla and the Museo Experimental del Eco, among others. For 2019 the artist will represent Mexico in the 58th Biennale di Venezia.