Ivan Madrigal (Mexico, 1983)
Iván Madrigal has been involved in the world of art since a very young age, even exhibiting his work at the age of 9. In 2001, he enrolled in architecture school, where he reaffirmed his vocation as a visual artist. Madrigal found in Playmobil figures his conduit to convey a principle: Not everything is as it seems.
In the composition of his work, there is a contrast between smooth fragments and spaces saturated with texture, as if he were trying to demonstrate that perfection is subjective and unattainable, that essence transcends the initial moment, and that it is this essence that truly survives, that which remains above the "posture".
His sculptures and paintings serve as a reminder of the struggle we subject our essence to with our appearance, of that contradictory game in which we try to convey something externally and, when forced, leaves us marked, like the clothing and contours of his characters, but ultimately gets exposed.
