La Superficie del Precipicio The Surface of the Precipice In Spanish and English Autographed Copy

Mexico City: Conarte Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura, 2010. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full Chrome-coloured boards, sans dust jacket, pp. 82. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Hugo Lugo was born in 1974 and was primarily influenced creatively by the 1990s growing up. A group of artists working in the United Kingdom, who came to be known as the YBAs, or Young British Artists, defined the artistic culture of the 1990s. Affiliated loosely by their age and nationality, they were a diverse collective of practitioners. A number of the YBAs attended the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths in London, and were favoured by the ‘super collector’ of the time, Charles Saatchi. The most well known member of the group is Damien Hirst, and other members included Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas and Sam Taylor-Johnson (née Sam Taylor-Wood). The YBAs became famous for their use of shock tactics and sensationalism, alongside their use of throwaway materials, wild lifestyles and an attitude that was rebellious yet entrepreneurial. Due to the high amount of media coverage that they garnered, they dominated British art during the 1990s, and their work was epitomised in the group show ‘Sensation’. The art world was influenced by a number of trends throughout the decade, and was characterised by the derisive sculpture of Maurizio Cattelan, and sensitive, conceptual advancements as represented in the work of artists including Felix Gonzalez-Torres.