some random thoughts on the hugo canoilas show which has just opened at espirito santo gallery in loule it runs til april 4.it contains a number of distinct peices, plus one collaboration with pedro reis. the works that i am drawn to are the text paintings....they contain references to surrealism...., the word "chance" is present...an important surrealist element....possibly the most important...are the words on these canvases "Chance" or selected?....perhaps in this context....they are conceived .....planned ....organised....are they a message?....the message is the medium....that rings a bell!.....are these paintings conceptual peices like other works in the show ?....or do they make references to jasper johns!.......the letterforms sit on or in an unidentified place or space....is there reference here to colour field painting...a la rothko or more to newman whose shapes extend beyond the picture plane.....some of the text in these paintings are missing .....are they to beyond the picture plain!!!..is pop art present ....that movement of the 60s that took popular imagery as its starting poiut......these text poems have an autographic feel....they have a painterly presense, including accidental marks left by the stencil...this is not chance or random...this is using these two elements in a positive way,,,,even though they are produced with an anonymous stencil...a stencil that would be used to label a sack or a parcel.......the text generated from the computer does not follow this archaic system....the computer controls the spaces between letters....there is no happy accident....."rivers" run amock in present day print........i am interested in the way that they are presented....not hanging on a wall but hanging back to back....you are invited to find out!..........if tjere are any spelling mistakes then so be it....its chance......over the years my own work has been influenced by artists such as magrtte ..daniel sporrie....concrete poetry....hockney....alfred jarrry...and crossword uzzles........words...signs and cymbols...myths and legends....borrowing from other cultures.........lots of mental suitcases full of collections of experiences...thoughts....conscious and subconscious connections....that might interconnect a any given time......below are 2 canoilas works and one of my number paintings.....my routes are in pop and the early conceptual days in the 60s whilst still a student...its interesting how events go around....and re appear......we have ideas that we redress like a cindy doll?????? the doll remains constant........? the equisite corpse?
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