Hugo Canoilas

• VNBM - arte contemporânea, Viseu (PT)
• 15.02.–31.05.2025

Umbra is an exhibition by Hugo Canoilas at VNBM Gallery in Viseu, Portugal.
The new drawings and objects were developed during the residency from December until February. The drawings connect motifs from Grão Vasco (1475–1542), one of the most important Renaissance Portuguese painters, who has his museum in Viseu. Other motifs in the drawings are objects from the Keil do Amaral Museum and the Esterhazy Shatzkammer at Forchstenstein Castle in Lower Austria.
This confluence is a heterogeneity of planes that may not be related initially, which I render through the drawing process. This reinforces the desire for art's materiality as the interrelationship between things that have never been put in relation or related in a particular way (sensibility, point of view…), which provides us with sensible and intellectual matter.
The ceramics, made in traditional Molelos' dark clay, are negatives of objects from inscriptions in the stone-paved streets of the medieval historical center of Viseu, Megalithic monuments in the region, and a small collection of objects from a private house that hosted the artist in Viseu. These negatives were inspired by boxes and containers of wood and leather to protect objects in the wunderkammer, which remained after some objects were piled and stolen. This negative representation is enlaced with De Kooning's sentence, "To represent a chair, one must paint the space underneath it," and reinforced by a game of shadows.

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