Limited Edition Etching by Hugo Wilson

Hugo is a technically brilliant painter who studied Old Master techniques in Florence. He then went on to receive his Masters in Fine Art after which he turned his attentions to unravelling the paintings by the Old Masters he studied. Taking certain parts or details from these paintings and reducing the image to abstraction, Hugo explores whether the drama, the emotion and the content will still be present in the image if the recognisable symbols are removed. Writing on his etching, Hugo asserts that it is “a continued investigation into human manifestation of faith. In this work, I have re-worked the terracotta sculpture by Renaissance artist Rustici depicting a mythological battle scene, currently on view at Bargello National Museum in Florence. I have removed the obvious narrative sections from the sculpture, creating a new generic symbol, which is understood to be that but cannot be pinned down”.