Pablo Vargas Lugo belongs to a generation of conceptual artists who emerged in Mexico in the 1990s and rebelled against painting and the nationalistic tendencies of Mexican art. In 1994, he began creating his trademark cut-paper drawings. The works, which draw on familiar styles and signs, are complex visual puns that subvert the viewer's referents. Here, twenty-four sheets of music are peppered with rocks derived from Chinese painting and Japanese anime. The contiguous placement of the sheets creates the expectation that they can be read as a music score, an expectation that can never quite be fulfilled. Ilona Katzew, 2008
