PAOLO VIGO (Trujillo, 1980)
Trained in the specialty of plastic arts at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Trujillo Macedonio de la Torre, Paolo Vigo complemented his studies with courses in graphic design at SENATI and architecture at the Universidad Cesar Vallejo, which have allowed him to enrich his creative work, incorporating resources and elements such as spatiality, compositional simplicity, concrete and direct image.
Between 2004 and 2019, he has made eleven solo exhibitions between Cusco, Trujillo and Lima. Projects in which she has been developing themes related to the individual in relation to contexts such as the home, social relations, education, violence, sexuality, etc.
His proposals have a great conceptual and symbolic charge, moving between expressiveness and surrealism, which take us to the memory of what has been his career as an artist built under the minimalist principle and the management of the image freed from anecdotes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST'S WORK
The production of contemporary art is varied and complex, from its languages, material processes, to its themes. The limits in contemporary art have been dissolved, and that is why the productions are oriented towards metaphorical narratives.
Paolo Vigo's works present, from the anonymity of his characters, narratives about childhood and youth in their different aspects: the home, social relations, education, violence, sexuality, labor exploitation, etc.
His proposals have a mixture and technical freedom exploring supports and media, as we can see in his series Children (2011), where children are accompanied by everyday elements such as a belt, beer bottles, etc., made by sgraffito and encaustic on cushions or pillows, upholstered in capitonné, and in some cases with small three-dimensional applications.
The artist takes up his reflections on youth in Abreacción (2019), exposing the levels of the human condition, from the scope of social and family responsibility to which they are exposed, as part of a frivolous, calculating and consumerist society.
Circumstances in which their age is altered, disturbing their development as persons, that is to say, situations in which their natural evolution as social and family beings is interrupted, taking away their rights to be children or pubescent when an "adult transfiguration" takes place.
Paolo Vigo's work is silent and intelligently shows us his artistic development that goes beyond aesthetics to build his visual discourse from the perspective of social criticism, consolidating a symbolic and expressive language.
Juan Peralta Berrios
Art historian and critic
June 2018