Career
Hugo laborice y Monroy is a Mexican painter born in Puebla on 01 March 1955. His themes are wide and his paintings tend to reflect his state of mind, ideas, questions, opinions on a number of things and situations in life. Fundamental questions about the Human condition like Life, Death, Music, religion are recurrent themes in his works.
Laborice uses colour pencils, oils, wash, waterclours, pastels and inks as materials.
Hugo Laborice"s style has been influenced by Luis Buñuel and Jean Cocteau. From his early childhood, Hugo Laborice was exposed to the performing arts by his father, an army colonel who had a passion for stage theatre and poetry and was quite well known during Mexico"s creative 1920"s millieu.
Studied Theatre at the Cinematographic Institute of the Actors Association (ANDA). Studied Plastic Arts with private tutors.
Became Art Restorer of the National Center of Conservation of Artistic Works.
Specialized in Muralism such as Diego Rivera’s Famous Mural at the National Government Palace, and other Murals like Siqueiros’, Orozco’s and others
