Online Viewing Room: Ania Hobson at SETAREH X

3.9.—9.10.21
Ania Hobson
I See You

SETAREH X is pleased to present I See You the first international solo show by London based artist Ania Hobson.

Dream and reality slip into each other in Ania Hobson’s paintings. The subjects, mainly women, represented with big coats and chunky boots, present stories of human interaction and detachment. Being part of social gatherings, at bars, alleys or restaurants, the depicted subjects draw the attention to an invisible context outside of the portrayed scene. Through the haze of smoke or the dimming lights, their gaze reaches out towards something happening beyond the painting.

SETAREH X is pleased to present I See You the first international solo show by London based artist Ania Hobson.

Dream and reality slip into each other in Ania Hobson’s paintings. The subjects, mainly women, represented with big coats and chunky boots, present stories of human interaction and detachment. Being part of social gatherings, at bars, alleys or restaurants, the depicted subjects draw the attention to an invisible context outside of the portrayed scene. Through the haze of smoke or the dimming lights, their gaze reaches out towards something happening beyond the painting.

SETAREH X is pleased to present I See You the first international solo show by London based artist Ania Hobson.

Dream and reality slip into each other in Ania Hobson’s paintings. The subjects, mainly women, represented with big coats and chunky boots, present stories of human interaction and detachment. Being part of social gatherings, at bars, alleys or restaurants, the depicted subjects draw the attention to an invisible context outside of the portrayed scene. Through the haze of smoke or the dimming lights, their gaze reaches out towards something happening beyond the painting.

SETAREH X is pleased to present I See You the first international solo show by London based artist Ania Hobson.

Dream and reality slip into each other in Ania Hobson’s paintings. The subjects, mainly women, represented with big coats and chunky boots, present stories of human interaction and detachment. Being part of social gatherings, at bars, alleys or restaurants, the depicted subjects draw the attention to an invisible context outside of the portrayed scene. Through the haze of smoke or the dimming lights, their gaze reaches out towards something happening beyond the painting.

SETAREH X is pleased to present I See You the first international solo show by London based artist Ania Hobson.

Dream and reality slip into each other in Ania Hobson’s paintings. The subjects, mainly women, represented with big coats and chunky boots, present stories of human interaction and detachment. Being part of social gatherings, at bars, alleys or restaurants, the depicted subjects draw the attention to an invisible context outside of the portrayed scene. Through the haze of smoke or the dimming lights, their gaze reaches out towards something happening beyond the painting.

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Works available

Ania Hobson, 2021, Outside Bar, oil:impasto on canvas, 190 x 180 cm_low

Ania Hobson
Outside Bar, 2021
oil/impasto on canvas
190 x 180 cm

Sobieski, 2021, 60 x 80 cm, oil on canvas

Ania Hobson
Sobieski, 2021
oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm

Ania Hobson emphasizes the contours of the figures, using a palette of tones that generates an emotionally distant ambiance, like a memory after a night out. Popular culture collides with art-historical references: Fauvism, comic, cartoonish distortions of hands and noses and a prominent use of impasto that, recalling Impressionist portraits, feeds the paintings with a sense of tactility.

Look Over, 2021, 76 x 101 cm, oil on canvas

Ania Hobson
Look Over, 2021
oil on canvas
101 x 76 cm

An investigation of social phenomena through the understanding of the figure, focusing on individuals, who either alone or in groups are always socializing. A psychological approach on how body language transmits sensations which the observer can relate to. The colour, distanced from reality, generates an emotional detachment that is quickly regained by means of situational understanding. The densely modelled figures mimic movement, gesture, expressions and signs so accurately that its nature is undeniable. A clear meaning eludes the scenes. This leads the viewer towards observation, a study of the non-verbal symbolism that one can identify with. Hobson’s paintings enable the recognition of something close but distant, familiar but unknown, plausible but delusive.