Event

Hugo Canoilas: Preview & Performance

Preview: Thursday, 5 March, 5.30-7.30pm

Performance: Thursday, 5 March, 6pm

Exhibition: 6 March - 10 April 2015

Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat 11am-5pm

Cooper Gallery is pleased to present the first major solo exhibition of Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas in Scotland. Someone a long time ago, now. is a rich palette of visual and textual collisions between multiple collaged projections of paintings, photographs, drawings and writing, cast on each other and the architectural fabric of Cooper Gallery. Shown over two floors of the gallery the exhibition is a rare chance to engage in Canoilas’ complex visual mediation of images.

Expanding the doubles and reflections embodied in Someone a long time ago, now., a final gesture in the exhibition underscoring Canoilas’ interest on the 'multitudes in ourselves' is a live performance by the artist during the Preview of the exhibition. In the guise of his alter ego Jeffrey, a 60-year-old hippie, Canoilas "will not explain but boost the relation between the exhibited works and their relation to the whole (social, political and artistic events), believing that the relation between art and the whole (all things) is the real matter of art."

Images courtesy of the artist.

Hugo Canoilas is a Portuguese artist based in Vienna. Canoilas obtained his MA from Royal College of Art London in 2006, prior to this he studied at Caldas da Rainha in Portugal. Canoilas has received international recognition for his art work since 2005 and has been featured at major international spaces including the highly celebrated 30th Sao Paulo Biennial in 2012.

Solo presentations of his work include A painting is getting its kicks, 1M3, Lausanne (2010), Endless Killing, curated by Chus Martinez at Huarte Contemporary Art Center, Spain (2008) and 10 reasons to be a member curated by Tobi Maier at the Franfurter Kunstverein (2007). Canoilas has also exhibited in international group exhibitions at major venues, most recently When elephants come marching in curated by Mark Kremer at De Appel, Amsterdam and Performance Proletarians organised by Lili Renaud Dewar and Benjamin Valenza at Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble and prior to this, exhibitions at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, and the Institute for Contemporary Art, London among others. Canoilas has received widespread recognition for his work in major publications such as Art Review magazine, Guardian, Observer, Frieze, Metropolis M and FlashArt. Canoilas has been awarded major public art commissions in Portugal and has participated in a number of international residencies, most recently at IASPIS in Stockholm in 2013. As part of his art practice Canoilas has contributed to a number of publications including a recently published intervention in Art Review Magazine. Canoilas is represented by Workplace Gallery (Gateshead/London), Galeria Quadrado Azul (Porto/Lisbon), Gallery Nosbaum Reding (Luxembourg) and Galeria Collicaligreggi (Catania) .

For more information about Canoilas' work please see: http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/artists/61-hugo-canoilas/works/8495/

For more information about Someone a long time ago, now. please see: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/hugo-canoilas/

The galleries can be accessed via the Cooper Gallery doors at the east side of the DJCAD car park.

Please note this exhibition is closed on Saturday, 4 April due to holiday building closures.

Image: Hugo Canoilas, Against the horrid fixity of everyday life, 2013, action in the streets of Vienna.