Víctor Hugo Núñez
In the work of the sculptor Victor Hugo Núñez are combined games and rituals, the erotic being and the searcher of the great hidden secrets. Each work is assembled in the search of the essential senses of the human being, the lover and the playful child, the dreamer and the nonconformist, the one who shouts the truth and the one who looks for his center, his explanation.
His pieces pay homage to beings and events as diverse as the dead and disappeared, the beauty of creative nature, women, Mexican artisans, Indian peoples, personal relationships, love and desire. Always a tribute to the imagination, always in search of aesthetic beauty and the best technical resolution.
Beings that can be men or animals or animal-men, that seem to be rescued from all the mythologies of humanity and from the profane depth of popular arts, from the root of a people that searches for its creative reason in fantasy and recreates it with fun.
The materials are all that can be transformed, a steel wire, mud, stone, metal, bronze, polyester resin, mosquito netting, in short, even a paste of sugar cane will be transformed into a saint, a mermaid or a Christ.
His artistic formation begins in 1960, with studies of drawing and sketch with Gracia Barrios, in the School of Fine Arts of Santiago de Chile. Very soon after, between 1961 and 1963, he studied design and ceramics at the School of Applied Arts.At the same time, in 1962, he studied singing at the National Conservatory of Music.
In 1964 he enters the School of Fine Arts, specializing in sculpture taught by Ricardo Mesa, where he studies until 1970.
At that time Victor Hugo is president of the Center of Students and Jose Balmes, director. Simultaneously he is assistant professor and later master of sculpture, when the school is located in the Parque Forestal.
In 1971 he's invited to form the House of Culture of the mineral of El Teniente, and that same year he is named as director.
- 1973 he's selected to represent Chile in the Latin American Art Meeting in Cuba, with sculptures dedicated to children. At that time he is surprised by the Coup d'état.
- 1974 he arrives to Mexico as a political refugee.
His sculptural work has remained for a long time in the permanent hall and gardens of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.
-1979 winner of the First Prize of acquisition in the First Sculpture Triennial of the National Salon of Plastic Arts in Mexico.
-In 1982, in the Second Triennial, he obtains Honorable Mention.
- 1985 recieved a Special Mention at the Salon of Alternative Spaces of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico.
-In 2014 till today, Victor Hugo enters the National System of Creators.