Statement
Hugo Bergeron organizes his artistic practice around painting and drawing within the spectrum of landscape art. In it he seeks to highlight symptoms of the transformations undergone by the land and the environment as a result of human activity, while exploring the influences of the illusions inherent to images, paintings and societies. Through fictional, figurative and abstract universes, he hints at the idea of a space that could embody the representational gap delineated by obsessions of formalism, attachment to specific themes, or insistence on predetermined artistic stances. This system affords him a point of entry into an absurd and contradictory reality, a non-linear process that creates the break needed to shatter conventional representation. Conscious of life’s fragile nature, Bergeron strives to depict the richness and beauty that paradoxically subsists within the tragic state of the modern world.
Bergeron’s art draws on various aesthetics to suggest the evolution of landscape painting and art in general, using style to confront homogeny, and erect a multifaceted approach to painting. From this intent stems an investigation on the pictorial systems and processes used to modulate images. By using his own experience and knowledge of color theory as well as an acute awareness of drawing’s intrinsic spatial evocativeness, Bergeron develops the notion of space as a complex entity. This prolific exploration of color and form brings Hugo Bergeron progressively closer to a comprehension of human experience, from its stated aspirations, to its actual outcomes.
Bergeron’s art draws on various aesthetics to suggest the evolution of landscape painting and art in general, using style to confront homogeny, and erect a multifaceted approach to painting. From this intent stems an investigation on the pictorial systems and processes used to modulate images. By using his own experience and knowledge of color theory as well as an acute awareness of drawing’s intrinsic spatial evocativeness, Bergeron develops the notion of space as a complex entity. This prolific exploration of color and form brings Hugo Bergeron progressively closer to a comprehension of human experience, from its stated aspirations, to its actual outcomes.