Pablo Vargas Lugo

Born:
1968
Residence:
Mexico, Mexico
Nationality:
Mexican
Trust:
APT Mexico City
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  • A round-up of the best shows in the city, ahead of this year's Zona Maco, which runs from 8 – 12 February.

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  • Magical Mexico City. A city of poetry, revolution, and art. Centuries of history, spectacular colonial architecture, intimate courtyards, extravagance, cuisine, and culture, Mexico City is a global city that has it all. In the last several years, it has increasingly become an art world destination, renowned for its up-and-coming gallery scene, prominent art collections and museums, and acclaimed art fairs ZONA MACO and Material Art Fair. Here are the must-see fairs, galleries, museums, and other attractions for a week in the Mexican capital.

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  • Throughout his artistic trajectory, Pablo Vargas-Lugo has proposed a dialogue that contrasts an honest and rigorous style impeccable to the point

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  • I had the incredible pleasure of visiting the studio of artist Pablo Vargas-Lugo a little more than one week ago. Pablo’s studio is temporarily

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BIOGRAPHY

Pablo Vargas Lugo (Mexico City, 1968) lives and works in Mexico City. Vargas Lugo has developed an elegant visual language of interwoven, abstracted motifs that reference landscape, designs found in nature, maps and weather diagrams. His practice encompases painting, sculpture, installaition and collage include a range of materials from cut paper to marble dust. The artist often manipulates spacial depth and volume by utilizing flat planes of color and foreshortening within his works. He has exhibited extensively throughout Mexico, Europe and the United States and was included in the 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004), The Biennal de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec (2002), and the Phoenix Triennial (2001). Selected exhibitions include The Paper Sculpture Show, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, and the Sculpture Center, Long Island, NY (2003-7), Contemporary Projects 9 – Gajin Fujita and Pablo Vargas Lugo, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and International Paper - Drawings by Emerging Artists, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2003). He is represented by Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie in Cologne, Galleria Maze in Torino, Galería OMR in Mexico City, Fúcares in Madrid and Massimo Audiello in New York, NY.


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