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Hugo Pondz: painter of blue silence
An open-air universe
For Hugo Pondz, it all begins with a colour: blue. An omnipresent, soothing, almost hypnotic blue. His canvases transport us to a suspended world, where the air seems lighter and time stretches out infinitely. Deserted swimming pools, skyscraper rooftops, motionless golf courses, marine horizons… each scene seems both familiar and strange. These are frozen moments, bathed in light, where silence becomes palpable. Nothing is exaggerated, everything exudes clarity and simplicity, and yet there is a subtle tension, a quiet vertigo. Hugo Pondz invites the viewer to slow down, to contemplate, to pause for a moment on the edge of the void to breathe more deeply.
A journey born of chance and encounters
Art has always been around him. His father, an antique dealer, immersed him at an early age in a world filled with paintings and objects steeped in history. His mother painted for pleasure, without any particular ambition. As a teenager, Hugo clumsily attempted to reproduce her strokes – a failed first experience that he would forget until he was 28.
It was then that he met Jean-Pierre Hubert, a painter who taught him the technique of glazing, the patience of the gesture and the chemistry of colours.
This sparked a lasting passion, fuelled by powerful influences: Giorgio de Chirico for mystery, Edward Hopper for light and solitude, David Hockney for the idea of an eternal summer where water, reflections and space become subjects in their own right.
Very quickly, his work found an audience: his paintings travelled and were exhibited in galleries in Paris, London, New York, Miami and Shanghai.
They found their way into private collections, appealing as much to contemporary art lovers as to those discovering painting in a different way – without codes or jargon.
The exhibition ‘Blue & Surreal’
will present his original paintings or limited edition reproductions on canvas
alongside photographs by Stéphane Opdenbosch.
On display at the V-Gallery from Wednesday 12/11 to Sunday 21/12.
Rue Vanderkindere 362, 1180 Uccle.
To make an appointment, contact yann@catchart.be or WhatsApp 0486776830.
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A luminous singularity
What sets Hugo Pondz apart is his way of painting silence. His characters — often seen from behind, sometimes children — seem absorbed in their thoughts, lost in the horizon. They resemble us. His minimalist universe, with its almost unreal calm, nevertheless conceals a constant dialogue between light and shadow, between tranquillity and tension.
Perspective plays a central role: it opens a passage to the unknown, a mental space where we willingly project ourselves. His blue, in a thousand shades, becomes a language in its own right, almost spiritual.
Beneath the tranquil beauty of his landscapes lies a reflection on the world, the real world, the one that questions and sometimes disturbs. For Pondz, painting is not limited to embellishing a wall: it questions, it invites us to think, it creates a link between the viewer and what remains to be discovered.
