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// Net.art // update 2003

'Museums of the Mind'

<color><param>0000,8080,8080</param>http://www.doctorhugo.org

</color>A virtual museum project: exploring the art & mind connection.


Research, theory and experiments on the telematic future of art.

Resources on net art, net films, paintings, the senses & synesthesia.


// Exhibition //

DOCTOR HUGO

'Cinematic'

Paintings 2002 - 2003


03 OCTOBER - 16 NOVEMBER 2003

WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY 14.00 - 18.00

Opening Thursday 02 October at 18.30


MINETA MOVE ART GALLERY

Minimenstraat 32 Rue des Minimes Brussel 1000 Bruxelles

TEL 32 (2) 512 27 26 minetamove@skynet.be www.minetamove.com


<italic>'The paintings of Doctor Hugo can touch us deeply because they
say something specific about the space we live in'.</italic> With the
attitude of a pioneer, Doctor Hugo has developed an impressive oeuvre
since the 60's: paintings, drawings, net art, digital films and Online
projects. For Doctor Hugo, ideas are tools. His experimental approach
to the blank canvas, surface, texture and colour, turns matter into
imagination; we enter the dimensions of the <italic>liquid
image</italic>, an appeal to several senses at once. A painting becomes
alive when it looks back at you, at this poetic moment it becomes
cinematic and activates our own individual 'films'.


<italic>'Les peintures de Doctor Hugo peuvent nous toucher profondement
parce-qui'ils disent des choses specifiques de notre cadre de
vie'</italic>. Tel un pionnier, Doctor Hugo a, depuis les annees
soixantes, developpe une