Fred Bugs: The Artist Who Promotes Figurative Art in Universities
By Space Coast Daily // October 3, 2022
The participation of the Italian figurative artist Fred Bugs in the international exhibition in Venice and the media interest from the major art blogs allowed him to get to know important American and European artists and collaborate with important sponsors related to various European and U.S. exhibitions in just more than a year.
Above all, it gave him the opportunity to participate in two important art conferences organized by a major university in New York, whose main theme is the popularization of abstract figurative art related to artistic creativity and fantasy art in all its forms and achievements.
A way of expressing oneself in total freedom, far from the ever-increasing frenetic disinterest in this way of making art that has only become popular since the 1970s.
There is no doubt that after Keith Haring’s death in 1990, this much more profound and complex form of art, mistakenly labeled pop art, was somewhat sidelined. This left a lot of space for art made much more casually, less figuratively, and more abstractly. An important theme of the conference was popularizing art through a new way of making it, namely by using posters and stickers and giving a cleaner and the less intrusive idea of urban art.
An overview of the artist’s biography:
Fred Bugs (the artistic pseudonym of Federico Cabras), a figurative Italian artist often linked to urban art, is best known in the United States for the extraordinary imagination with which he creates particular abstract figures in unknown abstract places.
He began his artistic career among school desks in the early 2000s and, over the years, has distinguished himself and achieved success, including participation in the international exhibition in Venice in 2021. The artist has never hidden the fact that he was inspired by artists such as Jean Michel Basquit and Keith Haring, who were very popular in the 1970s and 1980s American urban scene.
