
Fabián Ugalde, "Perfect Gene Tierney"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 56" x 47"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Bather"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 75" x 54"
Fabián Ugalde, "Complementary Madonna"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 51" x 45"
Fabián Ugalde, "Blue Expanded Warhol"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 62" x 59"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Ziggy"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 66" x 61"
Fabián Ugalde, "Complementary Manet"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 50" x 64"
Fabián Ugalde, "Perfect Pajou"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 59" x 43"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Vermeer"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 65" x 58"
Fabián Ugalde, "Moroni On Pause"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 70" x 52"
Fabián Ugalde, "Ingres On Pause"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 63" x 50"
Fabián Ugalde, "Perfect Princess"
Archival digital print on paper
51" x 51"
Fabián Ugalde, "Perfect Audrey"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 62" x 46"
Fabián Ugalde, "Marilyn Color Azul"
Inkjet on cotton paper
Framed 58" x 50"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Ingres"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 71" x 46"
Fabián Ugalde, "Ingres Data Failures"
Inkjet on cotton paper
Framed 53" x 43"
Fabián Ugalde, "Moroni Data Failures"
Inkjet on cotton paper
Framed 58" x 46"
Fabián Ugalde, "J.L.D. Data Failures"
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 62" x 48"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Raphael"
Archival digital print on paper
51" x 51"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Warhol" Ed. of 8
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 62" x 59"
Fabián Ugalde, "Complementary Grant Wood" Ed. of 8
Inkjet on cotton paper
Framed 67" x 57"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Vermeer" Ed. of 8
Inkjet on cotton paper
Framed 58" x 54"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Raphael III" Ed. of 8
Inkjet on cotton paper
Framed 73" x 50"
Fabián Ugalde, "Venus Signal Failures" SOLD
Archival digital print on paper
Framed 62" x 95"
Fabián Ugalde, "Golden Perfect Liz Reduction" SOLD
Inkjet on cotton paper
54" x 43"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Grant Wood" Ed. of 8 SOLD
Archival digital print on paper
59" x 63"
Fabián Ugalde, "Expanded Jacques-Louis David" SOLD
Archival digital print on paper
69" x 53"
Fabián Ugalde, "Pink Blue Perfect Norma" Ed. of 8 SOLD
Inkjet on cotton paper
55" x 47.25"
In the second half of the XXth century, certain works of art transcended the realm of the gallery and museum, and became iconic in popular culture. The central tension of Fabian Ugalde’s work is the examination of factors that turn art into iconography.
Just like Pop Art appropriated comics and cartoons, Ugalde uses the classics and mixes them up with insight and humor, admiration and irony, parody and lyricism, in a place where jokes become judgment and judgement becomes a joke.
Through precise cuts guided by a reticle, Ugalde recomposes the portrait of the Girl With The Pearl Earring in an attempt to return to the origin of beauty; that is, a regression to the symmetry, rhythm and proportion governed by mathematical order. Ugalde uses distortion as a metaphor, referring to both the distorted relationship between art history and the contemporary art world, and to the difficulty that the modern spectator has finding themselves reflected in a work of art.
Ugalde is a graduate of INBA (1992-1997). Since 1998 his work has been exhibited in in a large number of museums and galleries in Mexico and abroad, in venues such as the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, Fr), Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro (Qro, Qro), the CAMAC art Centre (Champaigne, Fr) and the Centro de las Artes de Monterrey (NL, MEX), Museo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (CDMX, Mexico City), Purnell Center for the Arts (Pittsburgh, USA), Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Gran Canaria, ESP), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MARCO (Monterrey, MEX), Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, USA), the Museo de Arte Moderno (CDMX), Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans (New Orleans, USA), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro (Querétaro, MEX), the Blue Star Art Space (San Antonio, USA) and the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, Pasadena, Mexico). Ugalde has been a member of the “Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte” on three occasions, and has received several awards throughout his artistic career. Among these are the first prize of acquisition in the “X Biennial Rufino Tamayo”, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, the 1st prize of acquisition in the 2nd National Biennial of Art Lumen and the 1st prize of acquisition in the 2nd National Biennial of Art Lumen and the 1st acquisition prize at the 2nd “Salón of October”.
Ugalde lives and works in Mexico city.