Hugo Canoilas

Galerie Martin Janda is showing Fables, Hugo Canoilas's second solo exhibition from 6th December 2024 until 1st February 2025. The show presents a compendium of the artist's latest works, including large–scale paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced within the last two years.

The etymology of the word fable traces back to Old French, meaning “falsehood, fictitious narrative; a lie, pretense.” The word is derived from the Latin fabula, “story with a lesson, tale,” and from fari, “to speak, tell, say.” The later meaning “animal story” comes from the popularity of the Greek Aesop's tales, which defined it as a short, comic tale making a moral point about human nature, usually through animal characters behaving in human ways.

Hugo Canoilas, *1977 in Lisbon (PT), lives and works in Vienna (AT)