Hand-painted & photographic multiple with archival inkjet
46 x 113 x 16 cm 18 1/8 x 44 1/2 x 6 1/4 in
edition 50
London-based artist Patrick Hughes (b 1939) is acclaimed for his exploration of perspective and visual paradoxes, inventing an optical illusion of three-dimensional surface where the parts of the picture which seem the furthest away are physically the nearest. The preconceived assumptions of eye and brain are challenged, inevitably raising important questions about our perception and the subconscious.
The 2016 ‘Great Wall’ is a three-dimensional hand-painted and photographic multiple with archival inkjet enclosed in a plexiglass box, depicting a combination of a landscape view of the Great Wall of China with red Chinese temple doors.
Patrick Hughes is represented in public collections including Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the British Council.