Hugo Canoilas at Workplace London
Hugo Canoilas “Fierce: Riding the wave fiercely with no fear.”
18th December 2013 – 8th February 2014
Workplace London
61 Conduit Street – London W1S 2GB
by appointment only, contact: info@workplacegallery.co.uk
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2013 (front) Mixed media on canvas. 60.2 x 50 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK
Workplace gallery (from Gateshead) presents its second exhibition at its new space in London with new works by an amazing Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas
Fierce: Riding the wave fiercely with no fear. is a room of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage described by Canoilas as “machines to see“. These works bring together wide ranging material, objective images and text taken from newspaper clippings, magazine adverts and poetry books combined with subjective matter (paint, glue, ink, and collaged cuttings from Canoilas’ own ‘automatic’ drawings) that cover and intersect with each other to create diagrammatic receptacles of chaos and information. Manipulating artwork convention, the paintings are double-sided and suspended in the space as multilayered and multifaceted objects. Canoilas challenges us to experience the work as diagrams where chaos is not organized but experienced.
Hugo Canoilas’ work is strongly linked to the art historical evolution of Modernism. Drawing upon the philosophy, poetry and foundational ideologies of this period his work employs a wide variety of media (informed predominantly by Painting) to represent a political and aesthetic convergence that moves towards a sensitisation of the viewer to the socio-political undercurrents that influence historical and contemporary culture.
