Hugo Lugo
El origen de la luz, 2021
Silkscreen on paper
90 x 67.8 cm
Edition of 30
Published by Anémona Editores
Anémona Editores invited the author to work in collaboration, from which the “El origen de la luz” (the origin of light) project emerged, initially conceived as a serigraphy. The author mentions that “the occasion seemed ideal for me to explore one of the principles of self-perception and self-awareness in space, through compositional games and subtle changes of color." To create the effect of depth, this work, composed of a single graphic plane, took advantage of the technique of inks applied in a uniform and almost minimalist way. Furthermore, the shadow itself as a gesture of self-knowledge refers to the fundamental principle of the trace of prehistoric painting. The particular aspects of these ideas are reinforced by the colors chosen; for example, black appears as an allegory of the cave, where light and shadow are fundamental. On the other hand, yellow brings us closer to the experience of brightness and illumination, while vermilion red reminds us of the pigments used on cave walls in rupestrian paintings.
Hugo Lugo
(Sinaloa, México, 1974)
From 1999 to date, Hugo Lugo has developed his work in diverse media, mainly through painting and drawing. The exploration that he carries out in his work focuses on pictorial language and its relationship with the ways we perceive the world; the artist points out how we find ourselves immersed in the reality of which we are part and all, object and subject at the same time. Lugo drives both material and conceptual explorations towards the creation of works dealing in different ways with the recognition of the human condition.
He graduated in Visual Arts from the Universidad de Montemorelos in Nuevo León, Mexico, and studied a Master degree in Latin American Photography a the Centro de la Imagen in Lima, Peru. In addition, he also attended the History of Thought program at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. Lugo is currently completing a Master's Degree in Written Culture at the Sor Juana Institute of Graduate Studies in Tijuana, Mexico.
Lugo’s artwork has been exhibited in cities all around the world, such as New York, Los Angeles, Caracas, Bogota, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Madrid, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Paris, Hong Kong, among others.