Artista, Comisario

Hugo Canoilas

1977 en Lisboa, Portugal

Datos generales
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Residencia:

Reside en Vienna, Wien, Austria

Profesionales que le han comisariado:

Ana Anacleto en:

Phantasmagoria, 2022

Chus Martínez en:

Endless Killing, 2008

Emília Tavares en:

Debaixo do Vulcão, 2016

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Premios ganados:

Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2020

Artistas comisariados:

Ernesto de Sousa en:

Antes desse ouro, 2018

Ferias en las que participa con OBRA :

ARCOlisboa 2023
ARCOmadrid 2023
ARCOmadrid 2018

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Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan:

Galeria Quadrado Azul

Workplace Gallery

Organizaciones con obra:

Banco de España

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB - Fundação CCB

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Profesionales con obra:

Pedro Cabrita Reis

Actividad vigente:

No hay actividad VIGENTE

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Etiquetas:

Abstracto Arte contemporáneo Collage Fotografía Instalacion Instalación site specific Pintura

Descripción del Artista

Hugo Canoilas (nacido en 1977 en Lisboa, vive y trabaja en Viena) bebe de la estética popular canalizada a través de la política y de ideas inspiradas en la filosofía y la poesía. Basándose en el pensamiento de los filósofos y escritores del siglo XX, entre los que se incluyen Derrida, Heidegger y Fernando Pessoa, su obra mantiene un diálogo rico en matices entre la abstracción y el realismo social. El trabajo de Canoilas se ha mostrado en exposiciones colectivas como la 30.ª Bienal de São Paulo (2012); «When elephants come marching» en De Appel, Amsterdam (2014); la 4. Bienal Industrial de los Urales, Ekaterimburgo (2017) y «Publishing as an artistic toolbox: 1989-2017» en la Kunsthalle de Viena (2018). Las presentaciones individuales de su trabajo incluyen «Vota Otávio Pato» en el Franfurter Kunstverein (2007); «Endless Killing» en el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte (2008); «Spirit of the air», Wiener ... Art Foundation, Viena (2013); «Someone a long time ago», Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2015) y «Under the volcano», MNAC, Lisboa (2016). Cortesía Workplace, Londres. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hugo Canoilas' art has, in his own words, a strong link to art history and the art evolution as it occurred during the first period of Modernism. His work takes on different media, using popular aesthetics, the representation of politics and ideas from philosophy, poetry and history. Emphasis is on painting as a material and metaphor. Painting is, in his view, an ultra-sensitive means to register the signals of the world, and a powerful tool to sensitize the spectator and hence the world. The artist (born 1977 in Portugal, lives in Oeiras) is part of a generation of Portuguese artists who process legacies of contemporary art, taking inspiration from certain artists from the Anglo-American and Latin American contexts, who at certain moments, for example in the sixties, developed poignant art proposals. The recent Portuguese artistic inquiry is interesting: in the history of the country, a sense of isolation and separation from the main centres and main histories are recurring features. Nowadays these negative aspects seem to grow into positive assets and incitements. (As a parallel one could think of the artistic case of the relatively isolated city, harbour and island of Vancouver.) The current art scene in Lisboa and Oporto is vibrant. Hugo Canoilas has an active part in it, next to his many international activities. His art is informed by the 1960s' experiments in art and life; his works contain explicit references to artists that inspire him, for instance Hélio Oiticica, Barnett Newman and Blinky Palermo. At the moment Hugo Canoilas is immersed in a research on the theme of the fall, the act of falling, and the idea of gravity (attraction and fatality). Text extracted from Dutch Art Institute: https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/1246/hugo-canoilas