Public works projects. Juan Ugalde

Throughout his extensive artistic career, Juan Ugalde has frequently resorted to photography and collage as means to add new meanings to his pictorial work. Proyectos de obras públicas is his latest series, made from photographs in the collection of the Museo Universidad de Navarra dedicated to this theme: the construction of bridges, roads and lighthouses, documented by 19th century photographers as proof of the country's development. Enlarged and mounted on canvas, the historical photographs are thus integrated into the pictorial work of Ugalde, who adds abstract strokes, small characters or anachronistic elements, which add a note of criticism or humor to the purely documentary reading of these photographs. This exhibition presents for the first time thirty new works by Ugalde, created within the framework of the Tender Puentes program.