Alejandro Quincoces

About

HUGO GALERIE is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the art of Alejandro Quincoces. The works flicker and flourish with the momentum of something still being realized. Their energy sweeps across each painting, impervious to the boundary of the canvas edge. His railways, roads, and rivers all too easily lead our unsuspecting eyes off the paint and into oblivion. They are unstoppable. And we are unstoppable in their presence. 

Quincoces’ inspiration is the consistent evolution of our surroundings. The urban and natural elements of his paintings are always in flux: the streetlights and automobiles of his cities, the reflections and ripples of his waterways, and the sunlight and cloudfilter of his skies that surround them both. They are all a bit smudgy, possibly smeared, certainly malleable. Everything is in a state of motion and transformation. Not only moving, but also becoming. 

This overwhelming sense of possibility is passed on to his viewers and they become activators of his artistic practice. The audience, in a sense, finishes each artwork. This is because Quincoces supplies the spectator with the pieces to the puzzle but not the final result. It is our own intuition, expectations, and experiences that inform what we actually see in each of his works. Is the horizon one you’ve witnessed before or only imagined? Is the harbor of your past or future? Is the skyline from your reality or dreams? 

Quincoces poses these questions not to interrogate his viewers, but to encourage their active participation in his works. This is a collaboration. The intrinsic subjectivity of each canvas makes perspective personal. It empowers