Workplace London is proud to announce a solo presentation of Hugo Canoilas’ work at its Mayfair gallery, opening in late September 2016. Drawing from history of painting and popular aesthetics and referencing myriad sources from jazz musician and composer Ornette Coleman to existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and Dadaísm, the works in the exhibition explore the language of painting from Modernism to the present day.
Hugo Canoilas was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal and studied at Caldasda Rainha, Portugal and the Royal College of Art, UK and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Recent exhibitions include: Spirit of the Air, Wiener Art Foundation, hosted by Kunstbuero, Vienna; Magma, Workplace Gateshead, UK; Paradise Birds – 30th São Paulo Biennial – A iminência das poéticas, Museum Casa do Bandeirante, São Paulo; Untitled (we can be altogether), curated by José Quaresma, MNAC – Chiado Museum, Lisbon; Vota Octávio Pato – Ten reasons to be a member, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Strata, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna; Infinite Tasks, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Dear painter paint me – with heart and reason, Trafó Contemporary Art Center, Budapest. Canoilas is currently developing a major project for MNAC – Chiado Museum in Portugal opening in November this year (2016).
