This exhibition shows the latest work of Juan Ugalde (Bilbao, 1958), a figurative painter with pop tendency, since the nineties, his work is characterized by the fusion between painting and photography. Today he is one of the best positioned Spanish artists in international circuits of contemporary art.
His early works in the mid-eighties, were framed in abstract expressionism. In 1986 He obtained a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to New York with his wife, the also painter Patricia Gadea (1960-2006). There he founded the artistic group Estrujenbank (1989-1993), of which were also part Mariano Lozano and poet Dionisio Cañas. Since many years he has lived and worked in El Escorial (Madrid) and his work is found in major Spanish museums and collections.
In La vida en los bosques (Life in the woods) Juan Ugalde uses an iconography that represents, as a poetic career, his obsessions, desires and hopes. In the series reappear swimming pools, cars, chimneys, houses, satellite dishes, trees, animals, natural cities and spaces.
Opening: November 29 at 20:00.
