ABOUT THE WORK

View on Colour / Lumières Vives

In her work, Beatrice Hug leads us into the world of dreams. Fantasies become sensory experiences. A photographer who also studied painting, Hug understands colours as energy, as the expression of an emotion. View on Colour is not just a look into one artist’s colourful universe; it is a glimpse of something entirely new. In her series Lumières Vives as well, Hug vividly shows how colours come to life in the light.

Hug creates translucent images, in which the sun makes certain colours shine. Her photographs reveal brightly coloured sections of these compositions which affect the viewer in an extraordinary way. Beatrice Hug knows which colours bring out the particularly powerful feelings and energies inside of us. Her intensely colourful work lets us drift along in pursuit of our emotions and memories.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Beatrice hug was born in 1961 in Singen, near the southern German border. Due to her proximity to the border triangle, she was more or less destined to develop a love of France. A few years after studying painting and photography in Aachen, she made Paris her new home. She still lives as a freelance artist in the French capital.

TECHNIQUE

Beatrice Hug’s abstract photographs have entirely “real” origins. They are coloured glasses and liquids arranged as spatial still lifes: installations with labyrinthine and translucent textures. With her medium format camera, a Pentax 6x7, the artist captures the interplay between the light and the particularly thrilling waves of colour that take form in the sun’s rays. With a shallow depth of field and varied exposure times, she creates images reminiscent of abstract and expressionistic paintings.

The energy of colours is my true passion.
Beatrice Hug

1961	Born in Singen, Germany
1981-1985	Studied Painting, Photography, and Illustration at Aachen University of Applied Sciences
1985-1991	Editorial staff at German Vogue and Elle
1992-2005	Freelance Art Director in Paris for the conception and realization of photo productions for international fashion magazines

Персональные выставки (избранное)

2010	Beatrice Hug, 7,24 x 0,26 Pier Giuseppe Moroni Gallery, Milan, Italy
2009	Color Unlimited – Fotografien von Beatrice Hug, Kunstforum Büsingen, Switzerland
2006	Abstractions, Galerie UNIVER, Paris, France
	Lumieres Vives, Connoisseur's Gallery, Paris, France
2005	Urban, Germany
	Reflets, Espace 43, Paris, France
2004	Urban, Atelier Galerie Le5, Paris, France
	Beatrice Hug - Photographie, L’Aiguillage galerie, Paris, France
	Parfum, Atelier Galerie Le5, Paris, France
	Colour Light, Espace J&J, Paris, France
2003	Elementar, Studio Zero, Paris, France
2002	Elementar, Förderkreis Kunst & Kultur, Hilzingen, Germany

Групповые выставки (избранное)

2013	27. Große Kunstausstellung, Förderkreis Kunst & Kultur, Hilzingen, Germany
	Aachens heiße Quellen und die Künstler, Kulturwerk Aachen, Germany
2007	Galerie ARTCURIAL, Paris
2006	Fragments de Nature, Galerie UNIVER, Paris, France
	Color Summer, Young Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2005	19. Große Kunstausstellung 2005, Hilzingen, Germany
	Parfum, Atelier Galerie "Le 5", Paris, France
2003	18. Große Kunstausstellung 2003, Hilzingen, Germany
2002	Moemoea, Atelier Galerie Le5, Paris, France
2001	17.Große Kunstausstellung 2001, Hilzingen, Germany

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