ARTIST SPOTLIGH: ICELAND-BASED ARTIST HUGO LLANES
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Scandinavia Standard
23.08.2020
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Scandinavia Standard ︎
“During my Masters in the Iceland University of Arts, my approach to art developed quite a bit,” Iceland-based artist Hugo Llanes explains. “At first, I was mostly working with time and space and site-specific art, and later I went into more political ways of doing art and performance.” Llanes moved to Iceland in 2018 to take a MA degree in fine arts, which he recently completed.
Llanes, originally from Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico, is inspired by Latin American political art and the uses of subtle gestures to communicate or critique modern society. His way of creating art is broad, ranging from painting to performances and edible installations.
We met up with Llanes at his studio on the university campus and discussed socially engaged approaches to art and Llanes’s recent explorations:
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Llanes, originally from Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico, is inspired by Latin American political art and the uses of subtle gestures to communicate or critique modern society. His way of creating art is broad, ranging from painting to performances and edible installations.
We met up with Llanes at his studio on the university campus and discussed socially engaged approaches to art and Llanes’s recent explorations:
