BEATRICE HUG
\n
ABOUT THE ARTIST
\n
INTRODUCTION
\n
C.V.
\n
WORKS
Lumières Vives
\n
ABOUT THE ARTIST
\n
INTRODUCTION
Color as energy, as an expression of emotion: the interplay of luminescent areas of color and form inspires and leads us into a world of dreams, fantasy, and sensuality. The artist admits, “The energy of colors is my great passion.” In her work Beatrice Hug searches for a world in which our senses consolidate with images; she invites us to enter her universe of memories, sounds, smells, and feelings. And she invites us to awaken our own voices and secrets, to let ourselves drift.
Beatrice Hug was born in 1961. She studied painting and photography, was fashion editor at German Vogue and Elle. Notable about her abstract photographs is the production process: the point of departure is a real still life in space that she creates – labyrinthine, translucent structures that are placed in the sunlight. Beatrice Hug thus creates the “object” that she wants to photograph. With her 6x7 Pentax and a lens adjusted to a short depth of field, the artist then “wanders” around the still life, looking for particularly pulsating and vibrating colors. Depending on the exposure time and the conglomeration of glass and liquids used, the resulting images are either pastel or vigorously colored, penetrated here and there with golden brilliance. The negatives are scanned and edited in Photoshop so that the colors come as close as possible to the original still life. Changes to the motifs themselves are not made.
Beatrice Hug’s abstract photographs are an example of how the artist does not depict forms and colors as they are found, but rather autonomously creates her world from A to Z in her studio. Fitting are words from the poet William Blake that Beatrice Hug is fond of: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”
