// 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