Hugo Wilson
Prior to completing his MA at the City and Guilds, London in 2008, Wilson attended the prominent Charles H. Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy, and had a successful but now defunct career as a portrait artist. Wilson’s conceptual work looks at various systems of order and the human pursuit of organising and knowing chaos. Fascinated by a Victorian sense of wonder, he often borrows from the aesthetic of the era, as well as defunct, handmade crafts. Ideas of genetics and religion are exposed, often in characteristic mischief and subversion; the documentation of whimsical scientific experimentation or recording modern discovery on obsolete media, while distancing himself from cynicism of critique. In 2009, Wilson has featured in The Old Vic/Punchdrunk collaboration Tunnel 228 and the self-curated Terra Nihilus at Maddox Arts.
Rorschach Sphenoid Rorschach
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Painting
137.2cm x 129.5cm
Charcoal and oil paint on prepared paper
Following the photograph ‘Rorschach Sphenoid’, this drawing elaborates on the ironic similitude between the housing for the pituitary gland, the perceived origin of consciousness and hormonal regulator and the supposedly non-specific inkblot. Wilson’s own re-working of the bone (or blot) in Charcoal and Oil paint highlights the interpretive ambiguity, which Wilson returns to with dizzying persistence. Do you see a bat or a butterfly?
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