LIZE HUGO
Lize Hugo's exhibition, Borrowed Images, which will run at the NSA Gallery from
February 13 to 24 is the result of her five-month stay at the Cité
Internationale des Arts in Paris in the latter half of 1994.
![[Image: 'Kisses' by Lize Hugo]](hugo.jpg)
"Kisses" by Lize Hugo
| "My first impression of Paris was that this is definitely the city of
love and light" Lize Hugo explains. "One is surrounded by kissing couples on the banks of the
Seine, in the parks, on the still popular posters and postcards of photographers such as
Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Brassai.
"Where else in the world do graffiti artists have more to say about love than about any other
issue? Artists such as Picasso, Rodin and Chagall portrayed couples in love. For the
Surrealists Paris not only carried the promise of love, the city was herself also a
metaphorical woman.
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CROSS-CULTURAL
"These 'borrowed images' started finding their way into my work," Lize adds. "I became
interested in cross- cultural adoption and 'borrowing' of styles and concepts, the Parisian
fad for all things 'a la japonaise' as seen in the work of Monet and others, the interest of
artists such as Picasso and Matisse in things 'Africaine' and the still popular French
fascination with 50's Americana.
"I started considering the implications of art of our time in the context of earlier art and
how artists of all times have explored and 'borrowed' from the art of other artists. I worked
along the theme of 'borrowed images' and exhibited the first of this series at the Cite
Internationale des Arts Gallery in Paris.
The NSA Gallery is in Overport City.