Hugo Alonso
Spain
Alonso’s work reveals a clear interest in the relationship between audiovisual products and their viewers. Initially pictorial, it has come to embrace a wide range of media such as video installation, electronic music, and visuals for theatre or painting.
Hugo Alonso’s individual recent projects are RAW, (Galerie Youn, 2017), Blonde (Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, 2016), Pendulum (CEART, 2016, Madrid), Believers (La Salina, 2015, Salamanca), How to resurrect a dead fly (Medina Film Fest, 2013), To my father and to the memory of my mother (Adora Calvo Gallery, 2011, Salamanca), Drop (Faquir Fest, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, 2010, Salamanca), Frederick Treves and the surgeon's room (Salvador Díaz Gallery, 2010, Madrid) or Paintingdrome (DA2, Domus Artium 2002, 2007 Salamanca).
He has been part of group shows such as TOC (DA2, Salamanca, 2016), Poétique quotidienne (Galerie Youn, Montreal, 2016), This is not a love song (Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2015), Expanded light: new technologies in Spanish videoart (Telefónica Fundation, Mad rid, 2015), Unlikely landscapes (CyL Institution / Theatre of Guarda, CyL / Spain, Portugal, 2012), Art and Videoclip (Loop Festival, Barcelona, 2012), 2008 Generation (La Casa Encendida, 2008), Della Pittura Digitalis (Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, 2007), Mixed Emotions (DA2, Salamanca, 2008), Existence (MUSAC, León, 2007), and Heterotopies (Oktogon HfBK, Dresde, 2007).
His recent highlight achievements are Art Madrid Noca Paper Best Solo Project 2016, Gaceta Fundation Young Painters Prize 2013, Young Art Castilla y León Institution 2011, Painting Prize Caja España 2008, Optica Videoart Prize 2008/2007, and Young Artists Prize Castilla y León Caja Burgos 2007.
He has been present in national and international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO (Spain), ART TORONTO (Canada), PAPIER (Canada), ART MADRID (Spain), CIRCA (Puerto Rico), ART FAIR (Germany), ART ELYSEES (France), CONTEXT (USA), ART SANTANDE R (Spain), FORREAL (Netherlands), ART ON PAPER (USA), CROSSROADS (UK), and Art Paris (France).
His work can be seen in public collections such as MUSAC (Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León), DA2 (Contemporary Art Museum Domus Artium 2002), CAB (Contemporary Art Museum Burgos), BMW Fundation, CEART (Contemporary Art Museum Tomás y Valiente), Diputación de Salamanca, Gaceta Fundation and Caja España among others.
Alonso’s work reveals a clear interest in the relationship between audiovisual products and their viewers. Initially pictorial, it has come to embrace a wide range of media such as video installation, electronic music, and visuals for theatre or painting.
Hugo Alonso’s individual recent projects are RAW, (Galerie Youn, 2017), Blonde (Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, 2016), Pendulum (CEART, 2016, Madrid), Believers (La Salina, 2015, Salamanca), How to resurrect a dead fly (Medina Film Fest, 2013), To my father and to the memory of my mother (Adora Calvo Gallery, 2011, Salamanca), Drop (Faquir Fest, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, 2010, Salamanca), Frederick Treves and the surgeon's room (Salvador Díaz Gallery, 2010, Madrid) or Paintingdrome (DA2, Domus Artium 2002, 2007 Salamanca).
He has been part of group shows such as TOC (DA2, Salamanca, 2016), Poétique quotidienne (Galerie Youn, Montreal, 2016), This is not a love song (Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2015), Expanded light: new technologies in Spanish videoart (Telefónica Fundation, Mad rid, 2015), Unlikely landscapes (CyL Institution / Theatre of Guarda, CyL / Spain, Portugal, 2012), Art and Videoclip (Loop Festival, Barcelona, 2012), 2008 Generation (La Casa Encendida, 2008), Della Pittura Digitalis (Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, 2007), Mixed Emotions (DA2, Salamanca, 2008), Existence (MUSAC, León, 2007), and Heterotopies (Oktogon HfBK, Dresde, 2007).
His recent highlight achievements are Art Madrid Noca Paper Best Solo Project 2016, Gaceta Fundation Young Painters Prize 2013, Young Art Castilla y León Institution 2011, Painting Prize Caja España 2008, Optica Videoart Prize 2008/2007, and Young Artists Prize Castilla y León Caja Burgos 2007.
He has been present in national and international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO (Spain), ART TORONTO (Canada), PAPIER (Canada), ART MADRID (Spain), CIRCA (Puerto Rico), ART FAIR (Germany), ART ELYSEES (France), CONTEXT (USA), ART SANTANDE R (Spain), FORREAL (Netherlands), ART ON PAPER (USA), CROSSROADS (UK), and Art Paris (France).
His work can be seen in public collections such as MUSAC (Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León), DA2 (Contemporary Art Museum Domus Artium 2002), CAB (Contemporary Art Museum Burgos), BMW Fundation, CEART (Contemporary Art Museum Tomás y Valiente), Diputación de Salamanca, Gaceta Fundation and Caja España among others.