Hugo Baudouin is a Berlin-based, French artist. Having immersed himself in skateboarding and street culture, it was through the study of applied arts and interior design that he signed his name to the art of painting. […]
Hugo Baudouin is a Berlin-based, French artist. Having immersed himself in skateboarding and street culture, it was through the study of applied arts and interior design that he signed his name to the art of painting.
His expressive style depicts the influenced inner self in an attempt to expose hidden facets of social iconography, sexual symbolism and aesthetic fantasy. Bold lines, faces, grimaces and characters are used to portray the recurrence of affirmation and validation in a digital age. Whether alone or in the middle of a crowd, we are all left to face our individuality, to challenge and unveil societal appearances.
By exuding the theater of persona and its multiple identities, Baudouin depicts society and the role of the individual within the collective. In so, he poses the question: Is it even possible to detach oneself from this hold? Who am I behind the mask? Who am I in the crowd?
His artwork entitled “PLEASE, TALK TO US” is on display in the current exhibition “Talking…& Other Banana Skins“.
