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Shara Hughes: Right This Way
To celebrate the opening up of our summer season, Kunsten will present one of the leading contemporary American painters, Shara Hughes.
Hughes鈥� works are at once surreal and abstract, inviting and alarming, beautiful and scary. Their bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives manifest into immersive and dream-like landscapes. Hughes鈥� 鈥渋nvented landscapes,鈥� as she calls them, neither depict true-to-life landscapes nor the imagined. Though profoundly personal, her fantastical worlds are also open-ended, inviting us in as portals to our own experiences and psychological discovery.
The exhibition will consist mainly of new works, including works on paper, as well as large-scale paintings inspired by the Nordic landscape and light. After a short residency in Skagen, Hughes also became drawn to the horizon line, where the sea touches the sky, and how it changes constantly throughout the day. She said, 鈥�(I do think)鈥here鈥檚 always something to learn about the passing of time and what that does to anything living, whether it鈥檚 mentally or physically.鈥�
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To celebrate the opening up of our summer season, Kunsten will present one of the leading contemporary American painters, Shara Hughes.
Hughes鈥� works are at once surreal and abstract, inviting and alarming, beautiful and scary. Their bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives manifest into immersive and dream-like landscapes. Hughes鈥� 鈥渋nvented landscapes,鈥� as she calls them, neither depict true-to-life landscapes nor the imagined. Though profoundly personal, her fantastical worlds are also open-ended, inviting us in as portals to our own experiences and psychological discovery.
The exhibition will consist mainly of new works, including works on paper, as well as large-scale paintings inspired by the Nordic landscape and light. After a short residency in Skagen, Hughes also became drawn to the horizon line, where the sea touches the sky, and how it changes constantly throughout the day. She said, 鈥�(I do think)鈥here鈥檚 always something to learn about the passing of time and what that does to anything living, whether it鈥檚 mentally or physically.鈥�
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Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the exhibition Right This Way by the US-American artist Shara Hughes.
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