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| 03.12.2011-18.02.2012 |
| Hugo Canoilas: Solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Vila Flor in Guimarães |
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Hugo Canoilas
Exhibition view, Vila Flor Cultural Centre, Guimarães, 2011-2012 |
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Definitivamente Provisórios ou Provisoriamente Definitivos
Centro Cultural Vila Flor is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition by Hugo Canoilas, Definitivamente Provisórios ou Provisoriamente Definitivos, to open December 3, 2011 and run through February 18, 2012.
Loosely translated as Definitively Provisional or Provisionally Definitive, the exhibition will present a piece from 2008 as well as a series of paintings developed specifically for this show. Displayed in the Centre’s galleries on three different floors, the works both highlight painting as a heterogeneous set of juxtaposed languages and reflect the multiplicity of issues and practices addressed by the work Hugo Canoilas has been developing.
On the ground floor the viewer is confronted by Endless Killing, the 3.70 m high by 100 m long painting on a canvas previously shown at Centro Huarte in Spain. This painting shows eighty Caucasian men standing one behind the other in the foreground. Each man is about to kill the man in front of him. Behind the men, and happening in the opposite direction - from right to left- are a series of historical events and references. By being juxtaposed, the possible chronology of these incidences is destroyed. All these occurrences are mediated by the history of painting, one that makes a certain history of violence visible. This painting, conceived as a panoramic painting, will now be re-considered in relation to the space and presented as a spiral in order to heighten the sense of infinity it evokes.
On the next storey, two large abstract paintings on cloth are placed on the floor. An animal gaze that has not been converted into a human gaze intensifies the existentialist nature of the exhibition and, in a manner similar to Jackson Pollock´s practice, questions the rational along with the control and mapping of knowledge.
In the basement gallery a group of formal paintings are suspended in a darkened space. These adopt formats appropriate to Modernism and the notion of painting as suspension. The backs of these canvasses carry clippings from Austrian tabloids thus establishing a dialogue between the hyper-real, a convenient resource when informing the general public´s sense of the real, and the world in abstraction.
To accompany the exhibition a 128-page book will be published addressing diverse issues Hugo Canoilas has been developing throughout his practice. The publication was designed and edited by Atlas Projects and includes texts by Ivo Martins and José Miranda Justo, as well as a conversation between Claudia Pestana and Hugo Canoilas.
Address:
Vila Flor Cultural Centre
Avenida D. Afonso Henriques, 701
4810-431 Guimarães
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| Artists involved: Hugo Canoilas |
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