The desolate landscapes found in Ugarte's paintings contain mammoth structures long since abandoned.  Looking across the hundreds of scenes I felt like an explorer left to travel across the remains of some long lost civilization. 

 The following quote from Michel Random as found here sums up the works quite well…

 "…a world suddenly petrified and fossilized, an ancient human metropolis of gigantic, rigid massess and immovable, hostile blocks. These cubic cliffs of black concrete appear in strong contraposition to the rolling landscapes where an all-powerful nature progressively invades and reclaims its territory.

A striking contrast emerges between power and desolation, where neither humans nor animals persist. Like a burial shroud, an ochre light envelops this vision of the end of the world. Is this fantastic realism or a vision of the near-future? Beware of such visionaries, since they risk becoming the accurate forecasters of the future."

Ugarte's website can be found here.

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