Too Late to Go Back

2021

CURRO Gallery, Guadalajara, Mex.
Photo credit Noemi Garcia.

CURRO is proud to present the fifth solo exhibition of the mexican artist Francisco Ugarte, with four new series of drawings, a sculptural element, and a site-specific intervention.

The works on display explore the concept of drawing as it expands through architecture, action, repetition, reflection and three-dimensionality. In line with the economy of means that has characterized his work and the intact curiosity with which he approaches his working materials, Ugarte develops a personal graphic language across the gallery space using different processual approaches to drawing. He does not only focus on the drawn surface, but also seeks to highlight the space where it is exhibited, thus operating a mise en abyme of contemplation itself.

This exhibition explores the concept of drawing, as expanded through architecture, spontaneous action, repetition, reflection and three-dimensionality. In line with the economy of means that has characterized his work and the intact curiosity with which he approaches his working materials, Ugarte develops a personal graphic language across the gallery space using different processual approaches to drawing.

Muy tarde para volver [Too Late to Return] describes the moment when the artist begins to draw, leaving no room for doubt or error. The truth is that in the meditative practice of drawing proposed by Ugarte, the idea of error seems to disappear, allowing for a more subjective expression to emerge. Behind this apparently simple action, there is a procedure that involves the artist's body and mind, in search of a refined abstraction that responds to an instant, a state of mind, a movement or a specific gesture.

Composed by a new body of work, this exhibition seems to mark a subtle change in the artist's practice taking a more intimate turn, manifested in his painting and drawing series of the last two years.