Mixed media, perspex box.

45 x 102 x 17 cm.

Edition of 75.

A hand painted pop culture inspired, three dimensional, reverspective print.

Incorporating work by Warhol, Vasarely, Thiebaud, Hughes, Lichtenstein, Koons, Banksy, Haring, and finally Signac’s iconic painting of Félix Fénéon, the art dealer, anarchist activist and critic who coined the term Neo-Impressionism to describe the works of Signac and Seurat in the late 1890s.

Produced in 2020. This print comes housed in a bespoke perspex display case.

Patrick held his first solo show in 1961 at the Portal Gallery, London. It was the first one-man show by a Pop Artist, though they were not even called that then. A few years later, Hughes made two seminal reverse perspective works, Infinity and Sticking-out Room. In the 1970s, Hughes’ name became synonymous with rainbow paintings, which also became very popular as prints and as postcards; people enjoyed them as decoration, but for Hughes the rainbow represented a solid experience.

In the late 1980s, Hughes revisited exploiting the difference between perspective and reverspective and solidifying space. For the last 25 years, his 3D reverspective paintings have been hugely in demand, exhibited around the world and featured in many public collections. The experience of seeing a Patrick Hughes sculptured painting in reality is really to experience unreality and the paradox of illusory space and movement.

Donated by: Patrick Hughes