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Hugo Crosthwaite is an
anachronism, a virtuoso of drawing in an era of computer-assisted
manipulation of images. “Guerra,” his series
on war themes, explores the complexities and beauty
of human expression during wartime through the evocative
chiaroscuro of his pencil and charcoal drawings on
Mylar. "I am interested in depicting human
suffering and the representation of violence through
a work that...looks for the expression of beauty,” he
notes.
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“I feel my work identifies
with the turbulent emotions of art movements such as
the Symbolist and Romantic painters of the nineteenth
century,” Hugo Crosthwaite says. His allegorical
and mythological references, inspired by artists such
as Delacroix, Goya and Gericault, often merge abstraction
with classical imagery “to create a feeling of
spontaneity in which history, mythology, and abstraction
collide."
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The artist’s “Commentaries” are
his personal narratives, visual depictions of memories
and opinions of people, places and perceptions. “I
love drawing. I enjoy its immediacy and tactility.
It provokes me into being meticulous, moving on the
surface from detail to detail where I take my time
developing an improvised figurative image and a narrative
that makes sense to me,” Hugo Crosthwaite says. “It’s
all about making a mark and breaking that white surface
with images that quiet my need to resolve some unknown,
improvised personal narrative."
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| A series of provocative,
dreamlike works transporting their viewers into the
quirky world of the artist’s fantasies. Suggestive
of the poor neighborhoods of Tijuana, his birthplace,
the drawings take us into a mysterious realm of magic
realism that is a visual parallel to the works of Gabriel
García Márquez. “I let the act
of drawing itself dictate the piece, the lines and
marks taking me in directions where I can resolve personal
aesthetic concerns that have been influenced by images
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This is the first major U.S. exhibition of Hugo Crosthwaite, a 33-year-old artist from Tijuana, Mexico, whose career is poised to soar into the stratosphere of contemporary art. The San Diego Museum recently added a 16-foot work to its permanent collection. During the arteaméricas art fair, Miller placed another in the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California. The artist is working on a 15-foot piece proposed for the Whitney Museum Biennial and is a nominee for the “Artes Mundi” prize in Wales.
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More than 300 people attended
the opening for Hugo Crosthwaite, including the artist
himself who was interviewed by a reporter from EFE,
the Spanish-language news agency during the reception.
Everyone was in awe of Hugo Crosthwaite's 8 x 36-foot pencil-and
charcoal drawing, "Tablas de una Novena."
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