Hugo McCloud

Rutger Fuchs

ISBN 10: 3775751564 / ISBN 13: 9783775751568

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag Okt 2021, 2021

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Neuware - Hugo McCloud's art has evolved through a rigorous process of inventive experimentation. Finding beauty in the everyday, his work incorporates unconventional, often overlooked industrial materials, including single-use plastic bags, aluminum plates, and bronze panels treated with acid. McCloud's ingenious approach to materiality is informed by a deep interest in social and political concerns. Over the past fifteen years, McCloud has produced a remarkable oeuvre brought together for the first time in this new survey. This publication coincides with the artist's first solo museum exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.The works of the American artist HUGO MCCLOUD (\*1980) are represented in numerous collections, such as the Brooklyn Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Turin.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hugo McCloud
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Okt 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775751564
• ISBN 13: 9783775751568
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 278W x 228H x 26D millimeters 278 millimeters width by 228 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1260 grams

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Synopsis

McCloud's painting explores labor, geopolitics and climate crisis, in both form and content

Brooklyn-based painter Hugo McCloud (born 1980) makes large-scale works depicting resilient laborers and immigrants, as well as colorful abstractions. His figurative paintings often feature subjects from behind, or with their faces otherwise obscured from the viewer. Finding beauty in the everyday is central to McCloud’s vision: he regularly incorporates unconventional and overlooked industrial materials such as single-use plastic bags, black tar and sheets of aluminum, along with bronze panels treated with acid. McCloud’s ingenious approach to materiality is informed by a deep interest in social and political concerns, as evidenced by the keen focus on immigrant workers in his paintings. Over the past 15 years, McCloud’s art has evolved through a rigorous process of inventive experimentation, yielding a remarkable and unique oeuvre that is brought together for the first time in this stunning new survey.