Anna Sofia, by Anastasia Matveeva(b.1988, Russian Painter)
JUAN UGALDE (Bilbao, 1958).
"Landscape with bird" .1997.
Mixed media and collage on front engraving.
Worked on both sides.
Signed and dated lower right corner.
Dimensions: 50 x 68 cm; 60 x 80 cm (frame).
It is usual in the nineties of the combination of contradictory Ugalde
languages, dissimilar realities, visual paradoxes ..., as in this case
the meeting of expressionist brushstroke, abstract line and the
emergence of a figurative element apparently discordant . Juan Ugalde began his artistic training at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. In
1986 he moved to New York thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, and there
Estrujenbank formed the group with his wife, Mariano Lozano and Dionisio
Cañas. It was a group of Spanish artists known as one of the most important of the late twentieth century. Their
creative horizons seemed to have no limits, resulting in performance,
video and creating a museum space, the Exhibition Hall Estrujenbank. It
was in this place where a new way of understanding art was developed,
transmitting it from a different point of the corresponding
institutional and commercial art in view of the time. Thanks
artistic activity that Juan Ugalde and released in the mid-eighties
with a work that explored the language proposed by abstract
expressionism, but now his works have spaces where painting and
photography come together. The
work of Ugalde is represented in different centers of great artistic
importance such as the Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, the Spanish Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Fine Arts Museum of Alava, the Herreriano Patio
de Valladolid, the Artium of Vitoria, MUSAC de León, the Coca-Cola
Foundation, La Caixa,
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