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9 December 2020
Exhibition tip Vienna: Navigating through the walk-on floor painting-installation by Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2020 winner Hugo Canoilas at mumok
Since this week, museums in Austria are allowed to open their doors for visitors again. Many institutions started exhibitions on Tuesday the 8th December (a Christian holiday in Austria) such as the modern art museum mumok the exhibition 'Hugo Canoilas. On the extremes of good and evil'. The Portuguese, Lisbon (1977) born and since 2010 in Vienna living and working artist Hugo Canoilas received this year's Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize. The prize is given since 2016 each year in cooperation with the 'mumok' (Museum Moderner Kunst Wien) to an exceptional artist. Part of the prize is the exhibition of the winner's work. This year, visitors can experience mother earth from a drone-satellite-like angle with zoom to the depths of the ocean. Hugo Canoilas created a walk-on floor work at an entire hall at mumok for providing for visitors new views on nature. The planet seen from a distance reveals through Hugo Canoilas' work the mystical depths of life. The navigation from space perspective leads along objects which remind jellyfish or plastics and addresses humans' active role on earth.
Image: Portrait and exhibition view 'Hugo Canoilas. On the extremes of good and evil', Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2020 from 8 December 2020 until 5 April 2021 at mumok. Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok / Klaus Pichler. Photographer: KPIC.AT
At the museum's video (Instagram post below), Hugo Canoilas introduces into the work:
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