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NOHRA HAIME GALLERY - Hugo Bastidas

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2016 · Entertainment

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Artist: Hugo Bastidas
Exhibition Title: Illuminations I
Exhibition Dates: February 3 - March 5, 2016
Gallery Link:  https://www.nohrahaimegallery.com/exhibitions.html
Video Link: https://youtu.be/cviQQ2Ow81Y
Description: The grandeur of our natural world takes over Hugo Bastidas’ large format paintings in his newest exhibition at Nohra Haime Gallery.  Bringing to our attention the beauty that we overlook in our surroundings, Bastidas creates images where reality and fantasy coexist to form a connection with his personal and persuasive visual language.

These works are inspired by images of woods, jungles, riversides and gardens taken by the artist on his trips throughout the U.S., Ecuador and France. Pairing incandescent light with alluring elements of connection such as circling vines, branches and bridges, he draws our attention to spectacular displays of nature endangered by human actions, often ignored and abused.

Bastidas brings light into his grisaille-like paintings with a delicate yet awing technique. Playing with the effects from the artificial glow a chandelier creates in the woods, he replicates the magnificent aura of a lit up palace in the context of lush vegetation growing wildly in the open air. In Illumination (2015) we experience a sense of greatness that is emphasized by the decontextualized chandelier, mysteriously camouflaged in the midst of the grisaille, but functioning as the main source of light.

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