Víctor Hugo Pérez is an extraordinary artist who over the last 25 years has given consistent expression to his very personal neo-expressionist style. His work is an outstanding example of Guadalajara’s cultural scene and has been displayed at a number of museums and cultural centers in Mexico and abroad. His artistic leanings toward the altar of expressionism is not a minor matter. A significant sector of progressive art in Mexico from the 1920s until today has maintained a vigorous dialogue with the avant-garde Expressionism of 1908-1945 and with global expressionist movements that occurred after the 1970s.

The images that Víctor Hugo Pérez creates draw on the incorporation of two simultaneously expressed aspects: iconographic irreverence and visual irony. The former is made clear through themes where black humor and disconcerting images triumph and are combined with the candor of an artist whose imaginarium is ostensibly naïve. The latter has to do with the formal and material resources from both age-old popular art and contemporary urban art that define Víctor Hugo’s execution style – contrasts in color saturation, fading, and graphics originating in pop esthetics. While Víctor Hugo is best known for his painting and sculpture, we now have the opportunity to appreciate several series of his artwork on paper.