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Patrick Hughes: The Perspective Paradox

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Patrick Hughes: The Perspective Paradox

Opens: 26 Oct 2021

Celebrating sixty-years of reverspective

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Celebrating sixty years since his first exhibition

Celebrating sixty years since his first exhibition

“When the principles of perspective are reversed and solidified into sculpted paintings something extraordinary happens; the mind is deceived into believing the impossible, that a static painting can move of its own accord” Patrick Hughes

Hughes was a pioneering figure on the Pop Art scene. Back in 1961, his first exhibition at the Portal Gallery in Mayfair was also the first ever solo Pop Art exhibition – and shortly afterwards he invented his revolutionary technique, Reverspective. This trademark method involves painting onto 3D shapes to create the idea of perspective as the viewer moves around the work.

The illusion is made possible by painting the view in reverse to the relief of the surface, that is, the bits that stick farthest out from the painting are painted with the most distant part of the scene.

Patrick Hughes

Though Hughes’s technique has been linked to Op Art (a key movement during the 1960s), Reverspective is unique because viewers are able to engage in the illusion by moving around the work to feel the full effect, rather than simply by looking at it straight on. Because of this key difference, Hughes terms his paintings ‘full body illusions’.

The Writing on the Wall detail.

The Writing on the Wall detail.

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Gallery View

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Window Shopping

Patrick Hughes

Window Shopping

  • 2021
  • Oil and collage on board construction
  • Edition of 5
  • Signed by the artist
  • 181cm x 19cm x 68cm

£60,000

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Detail of Window Shopping

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Did You Know?

The artist’s obsession with looking at things upside down and the wrong way round has its roots in a childhood memory. Sheltering from WWII bombs in the cupboard under the stairs of his Birmingham home, Hughes would look up and consider the staircase from underneath – a different way of seeing things that has informed his thought process and themes throughout his career.

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Detail of Caring Haring

Detail of Caring Haring

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Detail of The Writing on the Wall

Detail of The Writing on the Wall

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Street

Patrick Hughes

Street

  • 2021
  • Hand-painted multiple with archival inkjet
  • Edition of 60
  • Signed by the artist
  • 75cm x 20cm x 39cm

£5,400

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Hang-Up Editions

Peggy was officially released on the occasion of the Q&A night at Hang-Up Gallery on 25 November. The conversation was led by Hughes' long-time friend and former BBC correspondent Rosie Millard.

Watch a moment of the talk where Hughes discussed 'Peggy'...

"There are many things that I would share, but sometimes I think the most profound thing that’s happened to me has been meeting other eccentric, misunderstood, or overlooked artists."

"There are many things that I would share, but sometimes I think the most profound thing that’s happened to me has been meeting other eccentric, misunderstood, or overlooked artists."

ART PLUGGED:
Reflecting on a life well lived with artist and inventor of Reverspective Patrick Hughes

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