Hugo Baud France
Hugo Baud is a Berlin-based, French artist. Having immersed himself in
skateboarding and street culture, it was through the study of applied arts and
interior design that he discovered his passion for the art of painting.
His expressive style depicts the influenced inner self in an attempt to expose
hidden facets of social iconography, sexual symbolism and aesthetic fantasy. Bold
lines, faces, grimaces and characters are used to portray the recurrence of
affirmation and validation in a digital age. Whether alone or in the middle of a
crowd, we are all left to face our individuality, to challenge and unveil societal
appearances.
By exuding the theater of persona and its multiple identities, Baudouin depicts
society and the role of the individual within the collective. In so, he poses the
question: Is it even possible to detach oneself from this hold? Who am I behind the
mask? Who am I in the crowd?
