Paolo Vigo
Bio
PAOLO VIGO (Trujillo, 1980)
Trained in visual arts at the Macedonio de la Torre Higher School of Fine Arts in Trujillo, Paolo Vigo
complemented his studies with courses in graphic design at SENATI and architecture at Cesar Vallejo University, which
have enriched his creative work, incorporating resources and elements such as spatiality, compositional simplicity, and
concrete and direct imagery.
Between 2004 and 2019, he held eleven solo exhibitions in Cusco, Trujillo, and Lima. These projects explored
themes related to the individual in contexts such as home, social relationships, education,
violence, sexuality, etc.
Her proposals possess a strong conceptual and symbolic charge, moving between expressiveness and surrealism, which
bring to mind her trajectory as an artist built on the minimalist principle and the handling of the image
freed from anecdotes.
Statement
Paolo Vigo's works, presented through the anonymity of his characters, explore narratives surrounding childhood and youth in their various interconnected aspects: home, social relationships, education, violence, sexuality, labor exploitation, and more.
His proposals exhibit a mixture of techniques and technical freedom, exploring supports and media, as seen in his series Children (2011), where children are accompanied by everyday objects such as a belt, beer bottles, etc., created using sgraffito and encaustic techniques on cushions or pillows upholstered in a tufted style, and in some cases with small three-dimensional appliqués.
The artist revisits his reflections on youth in Abreacción (2019), exposing the levels of the human condition, from the perspective of the social and familial responsibilities to which they are exposed as part of a frivolous, calculating, and consumerist society.
Circumstances that distort age, disrupting their development as individuals—that is, situations that interrupt their natural evolution as social and familial beings, depriving them of their rights to be children or adolescents by producing an “adult transfiguration.”
Paolo Vigo’s work is quiet and intelligently reveals his artistic development, which goes beyond the aesthetic to construct his visual discourse from the perspective of social critique, consolidating a symbolic and expressive language.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
