Skopia is delighted to announce the participation of Thomas Huber at Art Basel Unlimited 2017 with the serie of four paintings “Vis-à-Vis”, from 2014.
The paintings of Thomas Huber unveil an ironic and imaginary world. His œuvre plays with a complex process of symbolizing, using sophisticated techniques in representation: systematic mises en abîme, simultaneous temporalities and the presence of various, seemingly contradictory elements in illusory spaces, between classical and utopian architecture. His work questions fundamentally the possibility of representation.
The spectator is at the same time excluded from and included in his paintings. The canvas determines the point of encounter between the painting’s own visible reality and the hidden depths of the image, this mise en abîme underlining its enigma. For Thomas Huber, the image is also a social place, making space for the encounter with the spectator.
Four paintings show a space divided into a red zone and a blue zone. The observer is in an imaginary field between the images, as much in front of the images as in the midst of a represented image-space in red and blue.
