50cmx50cm (2016) Painting by Hugues Chamagne

Each canvas is a new adventure, a breathtaking creative whirlwind that swirls in every corner, playing with light and shadow, even reflecting the presence of the wind.

He is as interested in light as in the spirit, Hugues Chamagne resurrects the old monuments which he populates with strange apparitions. From then on everything comes to life, the stone statues begin to move, candelabras in hands, to revive these inanimate architectures, glorious from their past.

It is history that sets in motion, realism that hesitates, carried away by a tunnel of surreal light. The universe of his compositions seems free from the control of reason, revealing magical visions dictated by the artist's unconscious.

Stone, water, air, Hugues Chamagne plunges into the roots of history and culture, flirting with the romanticism of the architecture of theaters, Venetian palaces, opera, sometimes letting music animate the space of these lyrical flights. Each painting is a spectacle, so rich in the complexity of its settings and the interpretation of its characters, that it can be discovered without ever tiring.

Thierry SNZYTKA, Art Actualité Magazine.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1963
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists