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Artist: Patrick Hughes
Title: Home
Year created: 2001, AP 6/6
Medium: Hand painted multiple with lithography
Edition of 40: ex + 6 Artist Proof
Dimensions: 44 H x 80 W x 19 D centimeters
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Artist bio:
English artist born in 1939, Patrick Hughes made his first three-dimensional relief painting in 1964. His intention was to create works of art that were different from the traditional. This lead to his invention of reverse perspective or ‘reverspective’. Fifty-five years on, he is still making optically deceiving works of art that captivate the viewer and install a sense of disbelief. Hughes' painted reliefs constantly baffle their audience, demonstrating how deceptive appearances can be. As we walk towards the seemingly flat paintings, they loom out at us, creating a disorientating and moving experience. The preconceived assumptions of the eye and the brain are challenged, inevitably raising important questions about our perception and the subconscious. His stunning illusions are not meant to confuse us (although they do), but aim to clarify our relation to reality. Instead of describing paradox, we can now experience it interactively; his work has more to do with us, and the way we think and perceive. Patrick Hughes is a very popular and highly collected artist, and has been exhibited in more than fifty museums around the world such as Tate Britain and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
About Bel Air Fine Art Galleries:
Founded 16 years ago, Bel-Air Fine Art is now established as one of the leading contemporary art galleries group in Europe.
Since the opening of a first gallery in Geneva in 2004, the Bel-Air Fine Art group has settled in the most prestigious locations in Switzerland : Crans-Montana, Verbier, and Gstaad. The group then pursued its growth with permanent locations in Europe: Paris (Place des Vosges & Rivoli), Saint-Tropez, Venice (San Marco & Dorsoduro), Forte dei Marmi, Knokke-le-Zoute, Cannes, Aix-en-Provence and more recently London. The group also has a gallery in North America in Miami (Design District) but also temporary locations in Middle-East (in Abu Dhabi, Dubaï and Beirut).
At the head of the group, father and son François and Grégory Chabanian attach great value to present a rich selection of internationally acclaimed and emerging contemporary artists from different artistic movements. Among them, we find the optical art of Patrick Hughes and Rafael Barrios, the street art of Mr Brainwash, Alec Monopoly and Banksy and the post pop art of David Kracov, Dorit Levinstein and Patrick Rubinstein. Photographers also get a good deal on the contemporary art scene with Liu Bolin, Christian Voigt, Antoine Rose, Cécile Plaisance, Joël Moens. Bel-Air Fine Art also represents major contemporary sculptors such as Carole Feuerman, Peter Anton, Sandra Shashou, and Bruno Catalano.
The group takes part in several contemporary art fairs such as Beirut Art Fair, Fair for Saatchi (London), Urban Art Fair (Paris & New York), Art Élysées & 8ème Avenue (Paris), Fotofever (Paris), Lille Art Up (Lille), St-Art (Strasbourg), Mia Art Fair (Milan), but also Context Art Miami and Scope Miami Beach. Bel-Air Fine Art regularly organizes exhibitions in their different galleries but also outside their walls in renowned luxury hotels, restaurants and palaces such as Le Lion d’Or (Cologny), La Villa d’Este, Le Plaza Athénée (Paris), Le Carlton (Cannes), Le Château de la Messardière and Hôtel de Paris (Saint-Tropez).