Hugo Canoilas: 'Constructing Paradise' - Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

Hugo Canoilas 'Love the sunset and dawn because there's nothing more useless than that', 2015,   Courtesy Gallerie Andreas Huber, Vienna and WORKPLACE, Gateshead and London, UK CONSTRUCTING PARADISE February 1 - April 24, 2017  Austrian Cultural Forum, New York  11 East 52nd Street, New York, USA Paul GAUGUIN Oskar KOKOSCHKA Hugo CANOILAS Jean-Michel BASQUIAT Mark DION Nives WIDAUER Kara WALKER Mathias KESSLER Mickalene THOMAS Marissa LÔBO, Christian Kosmas MAYER Moussa KONE  Curated by Dieter BUCHHART Curatorial Advisor: Mathias KESSLER  JANUARY 31│EXHIBITION OPENING 6 PM -- 7 PM: Artist talk  7 PM – 9 PM: Reception featuring a performance by Marissa Lôbo Constructing Paradise exhibits contemporary reinterpretations of notions of the "exotic" by artists based in Austria or the United States. Taking iconic artworks such as Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa and Oskar Kokoschka's Tiger Cat as starting points, the show assembles a diverse range of work from early contemporary to more recent artistic responses to the modernist imprint of desire and fantasy on contemporary culture. Particularly when juxta­posed with hyperbolized images of modern-day advertising, the exhibition explores the psychological impacts of the modernist image on image culture and the Western psyche.  Hugo Canoilas was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Recent Exhibitions and projects include: When elephants march in, curated my Mark Kremer at De Appel, Amsterdam, NL;  Paradise Birds - 30th São Paulo Biennial;  Infinite Tasks, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; Dear painter paint me - with heart and reason, Trafó Contemporary Art Center, Budapest, DEBAIXO DO VULCÃO, MNAC, Lisbon For further information on work by Hugo Canoilas please contact: miles@workplacegallery.co.uk

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