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Víctor Hugo Pérez’s painting references popular imagery (crafts, martyrdom, hagiography). In his work, a vast fable is created where human and animal protagonism alternate. The artist alone sustains phrases full of sarcasm and irony between love, eroticism, and literature.
His mixed media works on paper reflect a monstrosity of the spirit; this introduces a postmodernist twist à la Jean-Michel Basquiat into the work of the artist from Guadalajara, while also nodding to the narrative of Catholic ex-votos. All the similarities, influences, quotations, or paraphrases detected in Víctor Hugo’s production, in relation to historical figures or trends in visual art (Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Beckmann, Dubuffet, Orozco, Tamayo), are, according to his own words, tributes motivated by the painter’s fascinated gaze upon the works that have attracted him over time.
Víctor Hugo Pérez
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Instinct, Contemporary Art Museum of San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, SLP.
Plasma, Ex Convent of El Carmen, Secretariat of Culture of Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Females, Joint Project with Juan Carlos Macías, Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco
2017
Heart of a Dog, Intersección Contemporary Art Gallery, San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato
2016
The Man and His Soul, Gallery Uno, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
2015
Tequila is a Bird That Flies Inside Me, National Tequila Museum (MUNAT), Tequila, Jalisco
2014
Víctor Hugo Pérez, Casa Jalisco, Polanco, Mexico City
The Bird of Wishes, Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara (MUSA), Guadalajara, Jalisco
2010
Those Who Give Their Heart, Gallo Cultural Foundation, Guadalajara, Jalisco
2007
900 B.C., Cultural Space Galerías Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco
2006
An Object to Love, Luis Tinajero Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco
2004
Flowers, God, and Prozac, Ex Convent of El Carmen, Guadalajara, Jalisco
2000
Passions Found, Alejandro Gallo Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco
1999
Violent Awakening, Casa Vallarta Cultural Center, Guadalajara, Jalisco
1997
Worse Than Dogs (Fierce Anguish), Young Creators Hall, Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco
1996
Paintings, Jorge Álvarez Contemporary Art Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco
1993
Gods and Clowns, Magritte Gallery, Roxy Cultural Center, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Imperivm, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2008
Index 2, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City
125th Anniversary of the Birth of José Clemente Orozco, Cabañas Cultural Institute
2006
100 Years of Jaliscan Painting, Cabañas Cultural Institute
2005
7 Artists at SEMS, Gabriel Flores Gallery, University of Guadalajara
2003
Panorama of Painting in Jalisco, Cabañas Cultural Institute
2002
5th Monterrey Biennial, with Honorable Mention by State, Arts Center of Monterrey, Nuevo León
2000
Breaking Point, Alejandro Gallo Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco
1998
8 Loko, Ex Convent of El Carmen, Guadalajara, Jalisco
3rd Monterrey Biennial, Monterrey Museum, Nuevo León