Vicente Aguado 'MOD 001' Painting Available

Artist: Vicente Aguado
Title: MOD 001
Medium: Varnished Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 31.5 x 39.4 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $925

  

Vicente Aguado is a Spanish artist born in Valencia in 1980 who fuses drawing, painting and recycled materials into sharp social commentary. He holds a degree in Fine Arts and a master in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, training that grounded his practice in theory while feeding a fascination with mass media imagery. In 2017 he relocated to Edinburgh, Scotland, returning to Spain in 2021, experiences that broadened his visual vocabulary and confirmed his role as a nomadic observer of popular culture.

Aguado specialises in mixed media works on recycled cardboard, printed wallpaper and found paper. Using acrylic, marker and spray paint, he layers bold outlines over newsprint or packaging, allowing tears, scuffs and leftover masking tape to remain visible as proof of process. The resulting pieces feel like ransom notes from the internet age, confronting surveillance, conspiracy culture and political theatre with gallows humour.

Recent series such as Quiet Riot Ritual present self portraits where the artist’s face dissolves into static, slogans and corporate logos, suggesting that identity itself is a cut and paste job. Limited edition prints and original paintings circulate on Artsy, Saatchi Art and The Artling, placing his work in private collections worldwide. When he is not in the studio, Aguado scavenges Valencia’s streets for discarded posters and cardboard, believing that waste carries the DNA of the city. By turning trash into testimony, he invites viewers to question who controls the narrative and to find art in the overlooked debris of daily life.