HUGO ALONSO

For the last few years, Hugo Alonso has been working on a project in which he explores the relationship between cinematic reality and everyday life, as well as the possible analogies between the history of painting and cinema. Cinematic fiction helps Alonso know himself and explore the environment in which he lives. Movies are his visual and conceptual resources. He is interested in our sense of permission with movies, in how, due to their fictional nature, they approach unimaginable subjects within the social codes that make a reality such as ours remain regulated.

Recurring motifs in the history of painting such as the landscape, the house, the salon, or the figure often plays a major role in his work, like a cinematographic plane that goes from the general to the singular. Each seemingly normal painting encloses some enigma, some unstable element, one or more visual fissures that place the image close to the conventional but on a different terrain, supposedly familiar but actually unknown. Sound and music have always been present in Alonso’s work, whether in painting, video or directly in sound productions performed under his first name or the alias Lynda Blair.

He has been present in national and international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO, ZONA MACO, UVNT, VOLTA, SEATTLE ART FAIR, ART TORONTO, ART PARIS, ART MIAMI, CONTEXT, ARTE SANTANDER, ESTAMPA or ART ON PAPER.