Hugh Mendes
Hugh Mendes' paintings draw on a combination of the historical notion of the still life and a psycho-geographic embracing of the random and accidental, set within a prescribed framework of world events. By obsessively collecting newspapers, the artist employs daily events by juxtaposing found images and headlines from clippings. Focusing broadly on four categories - the war on terror; the march of science; the artworld; and in particular obituaries - Mendes' increasingly hyper-real renditions become haunting epitaphs for our society.
Hugh Mendes lives and works in London. He has shown internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Naples and Tokyo including exhibitions at Raid Projects, Mark Moore Gallery, Wooster Projects, Changing Role Gallery and Tokyo Wonder Site. He has also exhibited at Hales Gallery, The Rockwell Project, Keith Talent, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, Sartorial Contemporary Art, Three Colts Gallery, Primo Alonso Gallery and The Future Can Wait in London. Mendes also teaches and curates.
Mendes was born in 1955 on Armistice Day in Hostert, Germany in an ex-Nazi experimentation / death camp. His mother was a nurse who was sent to Belsen aged 23, and his father worked for British Intelligence and was responsible for interrogating high-ranking Nazi officers after the war. Hugh Mendes studied Painting at Chelsea School of Art and at City & Guilds of London Art School, which he graduated from on 9/11.
Hugh Mendes
Until 29 April
Gallery Braubachfive
Braubachstr. 5
D-60311 Frankfurt
T +49(0)69 13379051
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