Hugo Ruyant
Biography
Born in 1992 in Compiègne (France). Lives and works in Paris (France).
Hugo Ruyant painted his first picture in a chapel in Haute-Corse in 2020 during a summer residency and has since devoted himself fully to painting. His first series "Survie et délices" was presented for the first time in his solo show at Galerie Variation in April 2023, then for the Emerige Révélations Grant exhibitions in Paris, Toulon and Madrid. "Survie et délices" features paintings of grotesque monsters licking bunches of grapes. A sort of contemporary Bacchus, the " Lickers " speak of both addictive and ephemeral pleasure. Repeated from one painting to the next, these allegorical figures find the generic form of a troubled feeling, between survival and excess.
His paintings are conceived as comic-book squares, propelled to the scale of Painting. By zooming in, each image synthesizes the entire narrative into a "key character". His drawing and colors cut out characters always in motion, caught in a transitory state where emotions are fixed in matter.
The figures are taken out of context, invading our reality. They appear head-on in front of the viewer.
Hugo Ruyant conjures up grotesque characters who conceal themselves at the same time as they confront us. In societies with masks," writes Roger Caillois, "the whole question is to be masked and to frighten, or not to be masked and to be frightened. In a more complex organization, it's a matter of having to fear some and being able to frighten others, depending on the degree of initiation" *. In the same way, the figures he paints take on the masks of monsters, clowns or gods to re-enact our behavior.
For him, the canvas is a magnifying mirror of reality, an extreme condensation of life where dramas, desires, humor and contemplation are brought to incandescence.
* Roger Caillois, Les jeux et les hommes. Le masque et le vertige, Paris, Gallimard, 1967, p.203
Selected works
Hugo Ruyant
Alka (39) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24059
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Hugo Ruyant
Please , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
180 x 150 cm (70.87 x 59.06 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24057
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Hugo Ruyant
Les passagers sans lune , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm (23.62 x 31.5 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24054
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Hugo Ruyant
Alka (26) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24039
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Hugo Ruyant
Alka (24) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24038
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Hugo Ruyant
Alka (13) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24032
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Hugo Ruyant
Alka (03) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24005
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Hugo Ruyant
Alka (02) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium
N° Inv. RUYA24004
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Hugo Ruyant
Alka (01) , 2024
acrylic and oil on canvas
33 x 22 x 2 cm (12.99 x 8.66 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24003
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Hugo Ruyant
The Handshake vertigo , 2024
oil on canvas, aluminium frame
140 x 230 x 4,5 cm (55.12 x 90.55 x 1.57 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24002
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Hugo Ruyant
The Handshake , 2024
oil on canvas, aluminium frame
150 x 120 x 4,5 cm (59.06 x 47.24 x 1.57 in)
unique artwork
N° Inv. RUYA24001
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Hugo Ruyant
421 , 2023
oil on canvas
114 x 162 x 2,5 cm (44.88 x 63.78 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, France
N° Inv. RUYA24028
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Hugo Ruyant
Lécheur (9) , 2023
oil on canvas
120 x 150 x 3,5 cm (47.24 x 59.06 x 1.18 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Lyon, France
N° Inv. RUYA24015
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Hugo Ruyant
Lécheur (8) , 2023
oil on canvas
120 x 150 x 3,5 cm (47.24 x 59.06 x 1.18 in)
unique artwork
Collection Laurent Dumas, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24011
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Hugo Ruyant
Cascade , 2022
oil on canvas
162 x 130 x 2,5 cm (63.78 x 51.18 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24012
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Hugo Ruyant
Lécheur (7) , 2022
oil on canvas, wooden frame
162 x 114 x 2,5 cm (63.78 x 44.88 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24010
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Hugo Ruyant
Lécheur (5) , 2022
acrylic on canvas
162 x 114 x 2,5 cm (63.78 x 44.88 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24009
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Hugo Ruyant
Lécheur (3) , 2022
oil on canvas
162 x 114 x 2,5 cm (63.78 x 44.88 x 0.79 in)
unique artwork
Collection Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
N° Inv. RUYA24008
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Hugo Ruyant
Sentimental , 2021
oil on canvas
114 x 162 cm (44.88 x 63.78 in)
unique artwork
Private collection, Paris, France
N° Inv. RUYA24018
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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions
Institut Français de Madrid, Spain
Institut Français de Madrid, Spain
Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Révélations Emerige, Paris, France
Galerie Variation, Paris, France
Galerie Variation, Paris, France
Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite, Centuri, France
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Survie et Délices, Révélations Emerige - Hit Again ! (cur. Gaël Charbau), Institut Français de Madrid, Spain, 2024
Survie et Délices, Révélations Emerige - Hit Again ! (cur. Gaël Charbau), Institut Français de Madrid, Spain, 2024
DEPENDANCE (LAUNCHING REVUE FIG N°8), Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France, 2023
DEPENDANCE (LAUNCHING REVUE FIG N°8), Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France, 2023
Survie et Délices, Révélations Emerige - Hit Again ! (cur. Gaël Charbau), Paris, France, 2023
Survie et Délices, Galerie Variation, Paris, France, 2023
Survie et Délices, Galerie Variation, Paris, France, 2023
Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite, Centuri, France, 2018
Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite, Centuri, France, 2018
Press
Le Quotidien de l'Art
Révélations Emerige : une décennie pour la jeune création
2023
Publications
DEPENDANCE
Publisher: Revue FIG N°8
2023
MARÉCAGE
Publisher: Lagon Revue
2019
GOUFFRE
Publisher: Lagon Revue
2017
