Hugo Canoilas: Someone a long time ago, now.

6 Mar-10 Apr 2015

Overview

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 collisions between 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. Canoilas’ draws upon the metaphors of the window and the mirror to set in motion an interplay of two forces, one passive and affirmative, the other active and rational. The culmination of this play is an invitation from Canoilas to comic book artist Francisco Sousa Lobo. The comic book I Like Your Art Much is set out to be an exhibition within an exhibition, acting as a reflexive voice and a point of departure from which the entire exhibition evolves to mirror the artist’s critical stance on the social and political histories of the contemporary.