Ugo Schildge
b. 1987 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Ugo Schildge has developed a new approach on wood panel with materials including but not limited to wood strips, natural pigments, plaster, which questions the traditional form of an artwork, blurring the border between painting and sculpture, canvas and media, control and freedom, and creating a perpetual come and go between figurative and abstract, conscious and unconscious, technique and illusion.
Initiated from the research on the articulation between image and movement, Ugo Schildge first developed a major interest in the gears - symbol of the industrial revolution - highlighting the power of mechanics. He explores the principle of movement to try to reinvent the perception we have of the image by activating the workings of our imagination. In his last works, he definitely places the consciousness of nature at the center of his work. The representations are more figurative, but the specificity of its lines, the choice of its materials and the trace of its mechanisms allow him to reinvent the forms and to explore new possibilities, new links between the earth and the men. The paintings depict depleted forests running out of resources, suffocated by the man seeking immediate profit rather than sustainability. These landscapes, this sad but probable future is counterbalanced by more luminous paintings, representations of bees or children, illustrations of the possibility of a harmonious tomorrow, of a great symphony in which the bees, the flowers, the human beings and everything that has developed in nature belongs equally to the same destiny.
Materials are also a central part of Ugo Schildge's work, of which honeycomb paper has been tactically integrated into the visual expression, giving the work a unique color palette and a sense of overlay. Working mainly with natural pigments, clay, wood and plaster, Schildge challenges the traditional form of a work, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture, abstract and figurative, control and freedom.
He exhibits mainly in New York and Shanghai.
