Catch the Hugo Gallerie opening of Philippe Charles Jacquet works Saturday April 27 NYC

472 WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10012                WWW.HUGOGALERIE.COM                212.226.2262

Philippe Charles Jacquet "Les Reclus"

Solo Exhibition Of Paintings   ARTIST RECEPTION ON SATURDAY, 27 APRIL, 6-8PM RSVP to 212.226.2262 or info@hugogalerie.com PHILIPPE CHARLES JACQUET EXHIBITION CATALOG HUGO GALERIE is pleased to present Les Reclus, a solo exhibition featuring the carefully articulated dreamscapes of Philippe Charles Jacquet. The show introduces new pieces by the artist in his celebrated style in which he builds his watery worlds with various and highly planned painting techniques.  Les Reclus’ title is more relevant to his canvas’ structural capacity than their figural; while most canvases contain more than one figure, rarely does a canvas contain more than one structure. The reclusivity ofJacquet’s built environments, dramatically poised within surreal and stretching landscapes, lends his paintings an enigmatic quality. Adding to their mystery is the fact that they cannot be quickly dismissed as make-believe—they are too realistic, too aligned with our own experiences of stone houses, wooden rowboats, reflection pools, receding tides, and cloud-filled horizons. Even the slope of a figure’s slouching shoulders is too… personal.  Jacquet is an architectural painter; he plans his landscapes and their built environments with measured precision, constructing them in a layered variety of media and methods until they are as real as they are imagined. The materiality finessed, from mirror-like water to rust-scored wood grain, brings his painted compositions to life. The combination of textures, geometric accuracy, and concise colors creates an esotericism that includes viewers rather than excludes them; Jacquet’s solitary structures do not reject but envelop the viewer with the familiarity of a feeling. As if we’ve been here before. Perhaps in a dream.   HUGO GALERIE is a fine art gallery in New York City specializing in contemporary figurative painting and sculpture. The gallery represents an international roster of artists working in a variety of media and range of genres. Please direct inquiries to info@hugogalerie.com. Above: Le Moulin à l'Aube, oil on board, 47¼” x 47¼" (120 x 120cm) | En chemin, oil on board, 47¼” x 47¼" (120 x 120cm)| La Piscine, oil on board, 31½” x 31½" (38 x 38cm)

For further information, prices and photographic material, please contact the gallery at 212.226.2262 or info@hugogalerie.com.   Gallery hours are from 10:00am to 7:00pm daily.      #fineartmagazine

In NYC catch Patrick Pietroli Hugo Galerie exhibition Patrick Pietropoli March 23-April 1

472 WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10012                WWW.HUGOGALERIE.COM                212.226.2262          NEW YORK CITY-- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PATRICK PIETROPOLI: COINCIDENCES SOLO EXHIBITION 23 March - 21 April, 2019 ARTIST RECEPTION ON SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 6-8PM (RSVP TO info@hugogalerie.com) HUGO GALERIE is pleased to present Coincidences, a solo exhibition featuring Patrick Pietropoli and his vision of when architecture and the figure collide. This show presents an entirely new body of work—one that takes the typical subject matter of the vedutisti and transforms it. Vedutisti is an Italian word for painters whose canvases are as vast as they are intricate; these artists produce large works of sweeping vistas without sacrificing a single detail. Whether bustling cityscapes or ceremonial interiors, their scenes always depict architecture and figures with astonishing accuracy. Pietropoli is internationally recognized for his exceptional skill among contemporary vedutisti painters. With this collection, he gives a surrealistic spin to the historic genre. Inspired as ever by what he describes as “the entanglement of complex shapes,” Pietropoli here eschews the usual formula of architecture and the figure to give us architecture within the figure. He even plays with the very concept of architecture—sometimes referring to what we might expect, such as a coffered ceiling or French facade; occasionally evoking the distinct framework of modern furniture; and other times referencing the structure of art history itself, inserting famous paintings and archetypes into his precise silhouettes. Like looking through a stereoscope, the silhouettes are cut-out windows into another dimension. Discussing this compelling body of work, Pietropoli offered a quotation by Isidore Ducasse, a writer celebrated by the surrealists: “…beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissection table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.” This aphorism captures the essence of his new collection—an esoteric collage of images ripe with wit and talent. Rather than burden his paintings with prefabricated analysis, Pietropoli intends for viewers to decrypt each canvas in their own ways. And these works are certainly worth contemplating for years to come, as they slowly unfold in painted layers. HUGO GALERIE is a fine art gallery in New York City specializing in contemporary figurative painting and sculpture. The gallery represents an international roster of artists working in a variety of media and range of genres. Please direct inquiries to info@hugogalerie.com.  Above: Acrobates, Oil on canvas, 52” x 38” (106.7 x 96.5cm) | Armchair, Oil on canvas, 63” x 63” (160 x 160cm) | Brutus’ Family, Oil on canvas, 78” x 56” (198 x 142.3cm)   For further information, prices and photographic material, please contact the gallery at 212.226.2262or info@hugogalerie.com.   Gallery hours are from 10:00am to 6:00pm daily.   ###