´´Joyce always said that in the human heart there was place for only one novel… and that when one writes more than one, it is the same book under different disguises.´´
Italo Sveveo quoting James Joyce
I have always drawn, painted and modelled feminine figures. I use them to represent to main subjects, Eros and Thanatos, Life and Death. I reach these subjects compulsively and intuitively, without theorizing or trying to pontificate on them.
When I made the Series “Little Figures”, I was searching images “staring” at the world, primary colours, naïf, pure icons of synthetic shapes, where I used only what I considered expressive, minimizing the anatomy for this purpose, and modifying, in some cases, its normal position. Little Fires are, and look at Life, through their breasts-eyes. On the other hand, the Series “Female Wrestlers” consists of women in tension, with twisted muscles, with more natural feminine forms, all of which inside a rebellion or fight whirl.
The Female Wrestlers are attacked, Life defends herself against Death. The Series “Female Warriors” represents Amazons on guard, wrestlers awaiting to be distended. They have an unique breast, which is also their head. In other series ,I made several Venus, the Love and Life goddess. In some cases, they are more realistic, emphasizing the figure’s sensuality and erotic profile.
In other cases, I assimilated the Greek / Latin goddess to images and myths of American pre-Columbian cultures. The Venus and the serpents and the Venus Jaguar, allow me to juxtapose opposed images of Life and death in the same character, using shapes and colours identifying them.
Finally, the Series Venus Jaguar CD, made after a trip in Mexico and Guatemala, represent the bridge between my emotions and my technological environment in face of the present condition of the Mayan people..
Hugo Hojman
August 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Trajectory
He starts his Art studies with Cecilia Marcovich
He participates in the National Show
First individual show, invited by Van Riel Art Gallery .
He is invited by the Culture Department of the City of Buenos
Aires, to present a show at the Art Market
He graduates as an architect and makes a trip to Europe and New York, for studying purposes
He was selected by the Argentine Artists Society to represent them at the Youth Promotion and participates in several collective shows in
several locations in the Province of Buenos Aires.
Show at the Fine Arts Museum as a consequence of the award received at Arché Foundation Biennial Collective show at Tema Gallery
Individual show at Tema Gallery Collective show of Arché Foundation at Fine Arts Museums of the cities of Paraná and La Plata.
Show at Buenos Aires Cultural Centre as a consequence of award obtained at Manuel Belgrano Sculpture Show.
Show at Buenos Aires Cultural Centre as a consequence of award obtained at Esso Foundation
Selected for sculpture award of Fortabat Foundation, show ay the
Fine Arts Museum.
Individual show at Tema Gallery.
Selected for sculpture award of Fortabat Foundation.
Selected by Sívori Museum for Democracia Award.
Show at Banco Patricios Foundation.
Selected for Movado Award-Critics Conference.
Individual show at Tema Gallery.
Invited to Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Foundation Award, Modern Art Museum
Show at Borges Cultural Centre.
The City of Buenos Aires Government approves the Law for the Monument to Baron de Hirsch, at the intersection of Warnes Avenue
and Julian Alvarez Street, which had been awarded in 1988.
Masters Show, Rubbers Gallery
Award Banco Ciudad Foundation, Fine Arts Museum
Individual show at Víctor Najmias / Art Gallery
Collective show Painting Architects in 100×100 Diseño
Individual show, Argentine Consulate in Milan, Italy
Cooperation Cultural Center
Buenos Aires
Works at:
◉ Eduardo Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires
◉ Contemporaneous Art Museum, Buenos Aires
◉ Gunther Collection
◉ Other private collections.
Awards:
◉ First Award – Painting Arché Foundation, 1982.
◉ Second Award – Sculpture, Manuel Belgrano Show,1982.
◉ Second Mention, Painting, Esso Foundation, 1983.
◉ First Award, Monument to Barón de Hirsch, 1988
Publications:
◉ 40 Argentine Sculptors, Hoy en el Arte Editions,1988.
Sculptures
Reclined Venus
with serpents
Watch
Warm Venus
Warm Venus II
Yellow Watch
with serpents
Amazon Warrior
One-breast
Female Warrior
Female Wrestler
in action
Female Wrestler II
Female Wrestler IV
Venus on the grass
Sketch of a Venus monument for a square in Buenos Aires
Reclined Venus
The new Victory
Venus with serpents
The Female Watch
Blue Venus
Staring Figure
Venus CD , lying
Geisha getting flat
Stopped figure
Venus
Venus Jaguar I
Dancing Venus CD
Blue Watch with serpents
Yellow Venus Jaguar CD
Blue Venus Jaguar CD
Venus porteña lying down
Wainting for the
Venus porteña
Venus porteña lying down
Venus porteña
paints
Dancing Venus C D in the Temple of de Jaguar
Venus porteña Danae
Venus porteña
Venus porteña
Amazon Diptych
Figure facing backwards
The Victory
Little Figures
in the water I
Staring Figure
Reclined Venus
Resting Venus
Little Figures
in the water I
