2024.11.08
Hugo Canoilas | FABLES | Galerie Martin Janda
FABLES . Hugo Canoilas, Untold, Millions of Years Ago, Now, 2024. high fluid acrylic on linen. 172x192 cm
2024.12.06—2025.01.18
Galerie Martin Janda
FABLES
Galerie Martin Janda is showing FABLES, Hugo Canoilas's second solo exhibition, from 6 December 2024 until 18 January 2025. The exhibition presents a compendium of the artist's latest works, including large-scale paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced within the last two years.
As a reflection on the current political and social affairs, Hugo Canoilas was driven by impulses and intimate gestures inspired by Fantastic Realism and Surrealism. These influences are vividly depicted in the most recent paintings, which are strongly influenced by Alfred Kubin’s oeuvre and installed in direct relation to Who Killed Cock Robin?, a series of handmade costumes and headwear, first presented as part of the opera Hold Your Breath that premiered this summer at Bregenzer Festspielhaus in Bregenz.In Fables, Canoilas’s practice, particularly known for its intersectional interest in ecofeminism, and the interaction between natural and artificial environments, explores both the physical and oneiric landscapes through a series of eerie graphite drawings on debris shells, as if they were texts—almost beyond language—evoking and interweaving the historicity of those phantasms and self-made human projections.