Hugo Canoilas, Phantasmagoria, 2022/23
High fluid acrylic on cotton mounted on a wood structure with a motor cotton 160 × 8675 cm; wood structure 230 × 350 × 70 cm
Hugo Canoilas
Born 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
The universe of Hugo Canoilas’s work is the deep sea. He refers to post-humanist currents of thought that question an anthropocentric view of the world, and call for an empathetic approach to nature and the natural environment. He allows nature, and the elements — water, gravity, and air drying — to merge and enter the work in a process that could be seen as mimetic of osmosis and symbiosis; a correlation between paint and natural fibres, between the artist and what is happening in front of him.
Hugo Canoilas, Reduced to Power in the Sea, 2024
High fluid acrylic on cotton, 150 × 110 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Spiral Ascending, 2024
High fluid acrylic on cotton, 150 × 110 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Committed to Self-effacement, 2024
High fluid acrylic on cotton, 150 × 110 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Chasm, 2022
High fluid acrylic on cotton, 97 × 71 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Making Love, 2022
High fluid acrylic on linen, 190 × 140 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Solace, 2022
High fluid acrylic on linen, 170 × 120 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Dark Verb, 2021
High fluid acrylic on linen, 700 × 275 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Andromeda, 2020
Glass, felt mat, 20 × 115 × 106 cm
Exhibition view, Serralves Museum, Porto, 2020
Photo: Filipe Braga
Exhibition view, MUMOK, Vienna, 2020
Photo: Klaus Pichler
Hugo Canoilas, Medusa, 2017
Fluid acrylic on linen, 150 × 120 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Butterfly Eaten by Ants, 2017
Fluid acrylic on linen, 210 × 170 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Seeing Feeling Remembering Forgetting, 2015
Ink on linen, 280 × 250 cm
Hugo Canoilas, Love the Sunset and Dawn Because There’s Nothing More Useless Than That, 2015–2018
Fluid acrylic on linen, 300 × 450 cm
