artconnexion invited Hugo Kostrzewa for his first solo exhibition. Following his residency this summer at 9 rue du Cirque, the artist proposed new works: sound installations, sculptures and paintings created in function of the location.

Hugo Kostrzewa is also a musician; his research revolves around the "plasticity" of sound. He dissects music to integrate it into his artistic practice through the reference to the pentatonic scale, which here becomes a painting. This nod to Jasper Johns superimposes codes and refers to the history of American painting.

By questioning the 'collective unconscious', he stages the elements of a globalised culture that gives everyone the illusion of a global knowledge of the world. Hugo Kostrzewa is interested in the place of art in a society of leisure that is nevertheless marked by the logic of work. Made from banal objects, the works propose microcosms built on codes accessible to all: connoisseurs and laymen, to each his own reading.

"At the end of the runway, Burlando, work every day.

Burlando, playfully. Tracks, noise in the distance,

it's nothing, maybe it's Indians".

Hugo Kostrzewa