Biography

Original linocut on BFK Rives d'Arches 250g paper
Numbered edition of 10
33 × 25 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, dry-stamped by the studio

Hugo Villaspasa lives and works in Marseille, having trained at the Beaux-Arts in Tourcoing and Athens. Trained as a painter, he also frequently works in printmaking: etching and lithography. His abstract painting focuses on the strength of colors, shapes, transparencies, materials, motifs and supports (he most often paints on raw fabric scraps).

His influences range from the Supports/Surfaces movement to the Fauves, particularly Henri Matisse, and the German Expressionists.

His graphic and artistic reflection focuses on what painting intrinsically is as an object and less as an end in itself, how the creative process is constructed and deconstructed, and how the painting challenges the viewer. He lays bare the pictorial elements. This is "painting for lovers of painting".

Hugo Villaspasa formed the Club Forme Couleur with Inès Willaume, with whom he presented the exhibition "Surface de Réparation" at Le Vecteur (Charleroi, Belgium) in spring 2019. He then presented "Lucarne", his first solo show at the Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix (2019/2020), featuring a series of works on paper. He has since exhibited at the Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis in Rome and is preparing a new solo show in Belgium for 2023.