Hugo Canoilas

---

Residencia

---

Profesionales que le han comisariado
Ana Anacleto en: Phantasmagoria, 2022
Chus Martínez en: Endless Killing, 2008
Emília Tavares en: Debaixo do Vulcão, 2016

---

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

---

Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan

---

Organizaciones con obra

---

Profesionales con obra

---

ACTIVIDAD VIGENTE

---

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

---

---

---