Past
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Frieze Masters 2024
Masterworks of Precolumbian Art 9 - 13 Oct 2024 This year at Frieze Masters, we are honoured to present a curated selection of museum-quality Pre-Columbian artworks, spanning from 2000 BC. Our presentation features a rich array of pieces, from Ecuadorian cosmograms and deities to abstract-patterned textiles that influenced the vanguard art movements of the 20th century. Read more -
Wari Empirical Arts
4 Aug - 1 Sep 2024 Between 600 and 1000, long before the Inca, the Wari forged a complex society widely regarded today as ancient Peru's first empire. Wari Empirical Arts, the first exhibition of its kind in Europe, opens up this exciting yet virtually unknown episode in ancient American history through a selection of startlingly... Read more -
Brut & Cute
Painted Textiles of the Andes Circa. 800 - 1200 AD 3 Aug - 29 Sep 2024 Circa 800-1400 AD This exceptional grouping of painted textiles from the Pre-Columbian Andes most likely served as votive tools for shamanistic rites and as clothing designated for ceremonial use. The seemingly whimsical and spontaneous manner in which these works are executed may strike us as marvelously exuberant from our 21st-century... Read more -
Tonia Gunstone/Wari
A Visual Response to Precolumbian Weaving 3 Aug - 29 Sep 2024 An invitation to create a visual response to the ancient textile pieces in the 2023 summer exhibition "Continuities: 2000 years of Female Art in South America" led Tonia Gunstone on a rich and rewarding journey of discovery. In her research on Wari textiles, crafted exclusively by women more than 1200 years ago, she virtually traveled to the coastal deserts of Peru. There, she engaged in the practice of tie-dyeing and immersed herself in the spirituality of the Wari culture, significantly reflected in their textile work. Read more -
Frieze Masters 23
11 - 15 Oct 2023 At Frieze Masters this year, we showcased an exceptional array of masterpieces to our connoisseurs: museums, institutions, and discerning collectors. Even the bold fashionistas left never leaving unhappy. They all aligned with our loyal pop-star friends, whom we continue to adore and listen to with intense satisfaction. The AI enthusiasts... Read more -
Antes de America in Fundación Juan March
6 Oct 2023 - 10 Mar 2024 Step into a captivating journey that spans centuries, well before Europeans named this vast continent 'America.' Our exhibition is a vibrant exploration of the continuous reimagining of ancient indigenous civilizations and cultures, from Alaska to Patagonia, in the modern and contemporary world. This remarkable showcase kicks off in the 18th... Read more -
Back to the Future
Celebrating 40 years of Paul Hughes Fine Arts 1 Jul - 31 Dec 2023 In celebration of our 40th anniversary, Paul Hughes Fine Arts is presenting a unique selling exhibition "Back To The Future" featuring museum quality Pre-Columbian textiles from our collection in dialogue with 20th and 21st century South American artists. Never before have these artists been shown together in one place, and this unique event revels in both the diversities and unities of our exhibition program. The show commemorates the gallery's history while also looking forward to its future. Read more -
Continuities
2000 Years of Textile Arts in South America 16 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 Lamb Gallery & Paul Hughes are delighted to present 'Continuities' a group thematic selling exhibition spanning 2000 years of textile arts from South America. Considered the primary art form in the Andean region, Pre-Colombian textiles were vessels to convey identity and became paramount in reflecting social, religious and cosmological cultural visual values. Read more -
RARA AVIS
White Cube Paris, curated by Jerry Stafford 3 Mar - 8 Apr 2023 White Cube Paris is pleased to present ‘Rara avis’, a group exhibition curated by Jerry Stafford which brings together antiquities, artefacts and contemporary works of art sharing the subject of birds. Latin for ‘rare bird’, the exhibition title infers discovery and a sense of the wondrous or exquisite, but also intimates feelings of loss and lament. With a selection of works from the Paul Hughes Collection. Read more -
Continuities
2000 Years of Female Arts in South America 2 - 23 Mar 2023 The exhibition Continuities celebrates the creative virtuosity’s and empowered achievements of Brazilian female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries contrasted with an important collection of Andean Pre-Columbian textile arts that inspired many of these modernist Brazilian artists as Mira Schendel, Jandyra Waters, Delba Marcolini and Sachiko Koshikoku. This selection of works foregrounds the unique role played by these artists in the development of modern and contemporary art in Brazil. All works as exhibited are realised by women artists from the ancient world to the modern era, the selection of modern paintings and textiles attests to the presence of the creative ingenuity in both Brazil and the ancient Andean regions that spans a time frame of 2000 years is testament to the enduring accomplishments of these female innovators to express themselves in a most poetic and sophisticated abstract manner. It illustrates that women were more than contributors to the developments of visual arts in Brazil, they were a driving force of Brazilian art in the 20th century.
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Somewhere to Hang my Hat
Oscar Humphries, 2, 52 Elm Park Gardens London, SW109PA 23 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Oscar Humphries is pleased to present Somewhere to Hang Your Hat, the first exhibition to explore collector, travel writer, and novelist Bruce Chatwin’s relationship with art. With a selection of works of the Paul Hughes Collection. Read more -
Frieze Masters 2022
RESONANCES / 2000 Years Female Arts of South America 12 - 16 Oct 2022 Resonances is a collaboration between Paul Hughes Fine arts and Gallery MAPA at Frieze Masters London Oct 12th to 16th. The presentation will include a select group of abstract Ancient Pre-Colombian Andean textiles from the Paul Hughes collection juxtaposed with the works of the 20th century accomplished Brazilian woman artists... Read more -
The Conference of the Birds
9 Jun - 8 Jul 2022 Paul Hughes Fine Arts is pleased to collaborate with the Tristan Hoare Gallery in the thematic exhibition 'The Conference of the Birds' a multidisciplinary group exhibition curated by Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar. The title is taken from Attar of Nishapur’s 12th century poem which tells the story of the... Read more -
Confluences
4000 Years of South American Arts 8 - 26 Apr 2022 The exhibition Confluences encompasses 4000 years of Abstraction in South American art , bringing together the works of a group of modern and contemporary artists whose careers spanned the 20th and 21st centuries, namely Joaquin Torres Garcia, Álvaro Gómez Campuzano, Fernando Coco Bedoya, Anita Payró, Alejandro Puente, Candelaria Traverso, and... Read more -
Frieze Masters 2021
13 - 17 Oct 2021 For Frieze Masters 2021, Paul Hughes Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of museum-quality Pre-Columbian textile arts. With a focus on a new collection of figurative painted textiles that manifest the genuinely positive spirit of the ancient Andes, we hope our audience can truly enjoy the first and... Read more -
Our North is the South
21 Aug - 23 Oct 2021 Bergamin & Gomide is proud to present the exhibition Our North is the South, with essays by curator Tiago Mesquita and Paul Hughes, from August 21 to October 23, 2021. There are Andean textiles, and around 30 artists, which explore the relationship between art and craft, presenting a panorama of... Read more -
Continuities
2000 Years of Abstract Art 1 Aug - 24 Oct 2021 “All Art was Once Contemporary” The essence of the exhibition “Continuities”, as presented at The Old Chapel, Maiden Bradley Duke of Somerset Estates, in association with Paul Hughes Fine Arts, originated from living artists within our constellation who share a passion for that mystical otherworldliness in art and to enter... Read more -
Angels
21 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 Feathers were a rare and valued commodity imported from the Amazonian basin into the Pacific coastal regions. The journey in those times to collect the bundles from the forest tribes was not only arduous but also perilous. Such feathers being a great luxury were only worn by the dignitaries, priests, and warlords as symbols of status and power.
Through its use the wearer became associated with the Celestial messenger, the Condor – Eagle, and shared the supernatural powers of this divine intercessor. It indicates the universal relevance of the angelic motif: well outside the Western tradition, the feathered being has always had divine connotations. Read more -
Frieze Masters 2019
2000 Years of Abstract Arts 2 - 6 Oct 2019 At Frieze Masters (London) 2019, Paul Hughes Fine Arts will exhibit a museum quality collection of lavish Andean Pre-Columbian feather and woven textiles spanning from 100BC to 1200AD, these feather works will be juxtaposed with the works of Bauhaus legend Max Bill, the student of Josef Albers, to engage the... Read more -
Design Miami Basel 2019
10 - 16 Jun 2019 At Design Miami Basel 2019, Paul Hughes Fine Arts presents a museum-quality collection of lavish Andean PreColumbian feather textiles spanning from 800AD to 1200AD, these feather works will be juxtaposed with the works of Josef and Anni Albers to engage the viewer in the continuing legacy that these astounding feather... Read more -
Ancient Textiles from the Andes / Whitworth Art Gallery Museum
28 Mar - 15 Sep 2019 Opening March 29th 2019, the exhibition “Ancient Textiles from the Andes” at the Manchester Whitworth Gallery will present the Paul Hughes collection to compliment the Whitworth’s own collection of these splendorous woven artworks. Spanning the period 300 BC - 1200 AD, the exhibition is the most comprehensive insight to the... Read more -
Géométries Sud / Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia 14 Oct 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 Read more -
Frieze Masters 2018
2 - 7 Oct 2018 In comparison to other medium such as ceramic, paintings and architectures, the textile arts in South America is widely regarded as the key to unlocking the ancient culture of the Andes. A highly sophisticated system of textiles production that encompasses techniques such as such as interlocking tapestry; discontinuous weft, painted,... Read more -
Frieze Masters 2017
Threads to Abstraction 4 - 8 Oct 2017 We would like to thank everyone who visited our presentation ‘Threads to Abstraction’ at Frieze Masters as jointly curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal and Paul Hughes Fine Arts. Read more
