PRESS

PRESS RELATING TO SCULPTURE

LA VANGUARDIA 04/11/2005

De Bill Viola, un clasico: el grito del video Anthem……aunque tambien en ella se puede ver desde las dolorosas esculturas de peces de Hugo Bruce al grafitti de ninos malos de Sixeart.

‘From Bill Viola, a classic work: the scream of the video Anthem. Photography, in addition to video-art has been the privileged format of the exhibition, although you can also see the painful sculptures of fish by Hugo Bruce.’

EL DIARIO VASCO 02/12/2005 (Violencia en el aire)

Desde la literalidad hasta la metafora mas sublimada. Imagenes horripilantemente bellas, como los meros y merluzas crucificados de Hugo James Bruce que questionan la supremacia de la especie humana

‘From the literal to the most sublime metaphor. Images horribly beautiful, such as the crucified groupers and soles of Hugo James Bruce that question the supremacy of the human species.’

EL PUNT 06/11/2005 (Diàleg de l'art i la violència)

Una altre de les aportacions impactants que aplega el BAC d’enguarry es lad’Hugo James Bruce. Mero crucificado es una escultura que reprodueix justament un peix agonitzant a la creu.

The central exhibition of the festival presents artists from all over the world in the CCCB(MACBA),among which stand out Orlan, Bill Viola, Erwin Olaf, Jim Goldberg and Floria Sigismondi’
‘Another of the projects which create an impact in the BAC exhibition is that of Hugo James Bruce. Mero Crucificado is a sculpture that realistically reproduces a fish agonizing on the cross.’

PRESS RELATING TO PAINTINGS

EL PUNTO DE LAS ARTES 7/7/2006

‘Hugo Bruce, poseedora asimismo de cirto aire de primera vanguardia, de tenues conexiones metafisicas que se ven culminadas mediante la introducion de unas arquitecturas fantasticas enmarcadas en amplios etornos vacios que evocan las grandes escenografias surreales.’

‘Hugo Bruce, whose paintings possess a certain air of the first avantgarde, of tenuous metaphysical connexions which culminate with the introduction of fantastical architecture in empty surroundings, evoking the great surrealist stages.

WESTSIDE 2000– ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT IN WEST LONDON

‘ Intriguing blend of realism and surrealism – he cites Goya and Dali as influences, as well as the existentialist literature of Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevskey and the gritty realism of John Steinbeck- is most alluring.’

METROPOLITAN –BARCELONA - BAC 2003- CCCB (BARCELONA)

“Dreamlike impressions of images from the Raval emerge in a number of his paintings. In ‘Cast-outs’, for example, he brings out an eerily beautiful harmony in the confusion of impromptu rubbish dumps as might be found in Career Joaquim Costa.”