Galleria Dante is set to host its first show of the season next Wednesday 14, featuring painter Luis Valui and sculptor Hector Buigues with a reception starting at 6 PM. Luis Valui is a painter of our senses; he paints in oil as well as watercolor. Because he has traveled the world his paintings are better known in countries other than his own. His paintings will make you smile and leave you with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. He infuses his Latin American roots with the tradition of tropical jazz and café culture. Collected by the J. Paul Getty Institute and Capitol Records, Valui creates rhythmic images, bringing his subjects to life. His works are also in the collection of Atlas and Mambo restaurants, Go West Productions, Televisa, Ripstein Collection, and Univision.

Luis was born in Guadalajara, Mexico where he studied for two years at the Fine Arts University in Guadalajara. At the age of 20 he moved to Mexico City where he studied at the “Esmeralda” school. This talented artist restored Colonial and Pre-Hispanic art for four years at the request of the Mexican government, while establishing himself in the Bohemian community of Tepoztlan, Morelos, a small village south of Mexico City. In 1986, Luis had his first individual exhibition at the prestigious OMR Gallery in Mexico City. Since then he has exhibited in collective and individual shows in the Modern Art Museum in Mexico City, the Modern Art Museum in Monterrey, Chac Mool Gallery in Los Angeles, living in different parts of Mexico and abroad. He has done show from California to New York, Mexico City to Paris, Isla Mujeres to Puerto Vallarta and back again. He now resides in the Chapala lake area in Jalisco state.

For this show, Luis asked if he could partner with a talented artist and his good friend, Hector Buigues. An extraordinary ceramic sculptor who have gained international fame for his pottery, the canvas on which Hector Buigues created with metal, wood and other materials, online abstract works without predisposed figures. This exhibition will present some of Hector’s finest work where the viewer could relate to find figures. By collecting this items, are parts that have regular and irregular forms, they are metal plates that hold ceramic circles in which other materials composed figures almost at random, but produced with great precision.

It could be said of Buigues that his is a new development, a novel spontaneous art that is pleasing to the eye, but with abstract lines which are difficult to understand. Hector Buigues, born in Valencia, Spain, has a long and outstanding career. His first studies at the National School of Ceramics, led by Fernando Arranz, and the National School of Fine Arts Ernesto de la Carcova. Among his several recognitions include the First Prize for sculpture in the Hall of Mar de Plata, in Buenos Aires (1952); First Prize National Ceramics, a city of Manises (1974); and the Second Prize and Sculpture, in Buenos Aires (1951). He has mounted exhibitions in California, Spain, Argentina and Mexico.