20 Questions: Patrick Hughes
20 Questions launched today with an interview with Patrick Hughes.
Widely regarded as one of the major painters of British contemporary art, Hughes has been investigating perspective, optics and illusion for 40 years. He coined the term "reverspective"—a contraction of "reverse" and "perspective"—to describe his three-dimensional sculptured paintings that appear to move as the viewer walks past them. Surreal landscapes studded with panel doors, galleries filled with meticulously replicated works by other artists, and rooms lined with books and bookcases interact with the viewer, slowly revealing new vistas and shifting perspectives.
Inspired in particular by Paul Klee and René Magritte, his works are part of many public collections including the Tate Gallery, London; the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, and the Deutsche National Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. He has been represented by Flowers Gallery London since 1970, and in San Francisco, his work can be seen at Scott Richards Contemporary Art. Hughes lives with his third wife in a flat above his studio in London.
1797 Grand Prix de Rome winners
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95BC—April 46BC), also called Cato the Younger, Cato Minor, or Cato of Utica, was the great-grandson of Cato the Elder, himself a Roman statesman who held the sequential order of public offices known as the Cursus Honorum: Tribune (214 BC), Quaestor (204 BC), Aedile (199BC), Praetor (198BC), Consul (195BC) and Censor (184BC). Being of noble birth, Cato of Utica received a good education, in particular under the guidance of Antipater of Tyre, a Stoic philosopher. As he progressed through the Cursus Honorum, Cato of Utica distinguished himself with his moral integrity and rigor: He was tenacious and stubborn, immune to bribery, and famously held a disdain for the pervasive political and economic corruption of the time. For example, when he was appointed in 65BC to Quaestor of Rome—a public official who supervised financial affairs—one of his first decisions was to prosecute former Quaestors' illegal appropriation of treasury money.