VENICE BIENNALE - WITH CAROLE FEUERMAN & PATRICK HUGHES

Carole A. Feuerman (born Carole Ackerman) was born in 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. In the late seventies, after having developed works linked to the poetics of the fragment, theorized by postmodernist thought, she began to create full-figure sculptures with a strong realist impact. Her personal variation of pop marks the profound difference with the works created in the late sixties by the hyperrealist sculptors. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. She lives and works in New York.

Patrick Hughes, born Peter David Hughes on 20 October 1939 in Birmingham, England, is an artist best known for inventing a unique optical illusion known as ‘reverspective’: a three-dimensional relief painting in which the objects that appear closest to the viewer are in fact the furthest away in space. His work plays with perspective and distance, challenging and sometimes disorientating his audience. Currently living and working in London, England, Hughes continues to follow the traditions of Pop Art, Optical Art and Surrealism.