Iván Madrigal is a Mexican visual artist who developed an interest in art from a very young age. In 2001 he enrolled in architecture, where he reaffirmed his passion and vocation for the arts.

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In his visual language, Iván Madrigal found in toys a vehicle for conveying a fundamental truth: not everything is what it appears to be. His pictorial works stand out for the use of the palette knife and brush to create reliefs, forms, and volumes — compositions with smooth fragments and texture-saturated spaces, as if attempting to show us that perfection is subjective and unattainable, that essence transcends the first impression and that it is essence which truly survives; the one that endures beyond "posture" and "ego."

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His paintings and sculptures represent a memorandum of the grief we have inflicted upon our essence through our appearance — that contradictory game in which we attempt to project something outward, and which, when forced, leaves its marks upon us, like the costumes and contours of his figures, yet in the end everything is laid bare.

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Since 2013 he has presented various exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. In 2015 he presented a compilation of portraits under the title "18," followed by group exhibitions in Mexico City at venues including the Centro de Cultura de Tlalpan and the Senado de la República.