Curated by AV Festival 2016: Meanwhile, what about Socialism? as part of the Festival group exhibition across nine venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
 

The exhibition includes work by the following artists and archives: Thomas Spence (UK), Amber Films (UK), Jack Common/North East Film Archive (UK), Tim Brennan (UK), Hugo Canoilas (Portugal), Dan Perjovschi (Romania), Madhusudhanan (India), Pallavi Paul (India), Haim Sokol (Russia), R.E.P. (Ukraine), Claire Fontaine (France).
 


This new installation by Hugo Canoilas creates a tension between the past and present, making it contemporary ‘like a knife with two blades’. It brings together his ongoing concerns around social discrepancy with readings on capitalism and Marxism including George Orwell, Pierre Joseph Proudhon’s The Philosophy of Misery, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and more recently The Manifesto Against Labour by Group Krisis. Canoilas’s paintings are acts of suspension and confrontation, layers of diagrammatic symbols, signs and texts between the abstract and the figurative.For more information visit: http://www.avfestival.co.uk

A installation by Hugo Canoilas consisting of darkened room with objects covered in black latex, and a low painted colourful canvas as ceiling

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Gateshead

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Discover Hugo Canoilas's latest installation, probing capitalism and Marxism through layered symbols and texts, alongside works by diverse global artists.

Hugo Canoilas: 'MEANWHILE, WHAT ABOUT SOCIALISM?' AV Festival 2016
: WORKPLACE GATESHEAD

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Hugo Canoilas: 'MEANWHILE, WHAT ABOUT SOCIALISM?' AV Festival 2016: WORKPLACE GATESHEAD

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Hugo Canoilas

Hugo Canoilas: 'MEANWHILE, WHAT ABOUT SOCIALISM?' AV Festival 2016
: WORKPLACE GATESHEAD