CHARLES HASCOËT: GLITCH

DANYSZ I MARAIS
  • At the crossroads of dream and autobiography, Glitch, far from being a simple anomaly, is here claimed as poetics of the unexpected, a moment when the system cracks to allow a new form to emerge.Charles Hascoët invites us to step through the looking glass of a painting where personal narrative replaces factual reality. In this hybrid world, the most trivial everyday occurrences take on a fantastic aura filled with mystery. Charles Hascoët composes his canvases like emotional landscapes in which love and tenderness serve as a moral compass.
         Crédits : Stéphane Bisseuil
  • Charles Hascoët’s work is autobiographical, even cathartic. He paints an alter ego immersed in an imaginary world, a refuge from... Charles Hascoët’s work is autobiographical, even cathartic. He paints an alter ego immersed in an imaginary world, a refuge from... Charles Hascoët’s work is autobiographical, even cathartic. He paints an alter ego immersed in an imaginary world, a refuge from... Charles Hascoët’s work is autobiographical, even cathartic. He paints an alter ego immersed in an imaginary world, a refuge from...
    Charles Hascoët’s work is autobiographical, even cathartic. He paints an alter ego immersed in an imaginary world, a refuge from the turmoil of the surface world. In this introspective dimension, each canvas becomes an attempt to understand oneself, to tame reality, and sometimes to escape it. The painter replaces reality with a personal narrative, an intimate territory nourished by memories, sensations, and images that have shaped his relationship with the world.
     
    Under the brush of an artist who has mastered all the subtleties of oil painting, his unexpected models, strange objects or figures, become the noble subjects of his paintings. Charles Hascoët elevates the polar bear, the Labubu, and the colourful Furby to iconic status. He thus taps into a universal form of cuteness that will soon take him to the Louvre-Lens Museum, where he is one of Annabelle Tenèze’s guests for the Trop Mignon exhibition.
  • Charles Hascoët loves electronic music, Game Boy, his dog Simone, polar bears, and icebergs...Charles Hascoët is a painter, DJ, dreamer, and bit of a poet.

  • Dive into Charles Hascoët's universe

    Charles Hascoët’s aesthetic references iconic films and series from Ghost Dog to The X-Files, 1990s pop culture, and his childhood memories filled with Game Boy and pet-like Furby. With the enthusiasm of a teenager, the artist explores territories populated by flying saucers, aliens, and dinosaurs.
    A BOOK : Zen in the art of archery by Eugen Herrigel (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    A MOVIE : Ghost Dog by Jim Jarmusch (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    A GAME : Outer Wilds (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    A RECORD : Perceive it's beauty by Shabaka (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    A BOOK : Zen in the art of archery by Eugen Herrigel 

  • “Glitch brings together tender ideas and possibilities that touch on the very heart of ‘principle of hope’.”

    – Charles Hascoët

  • This exhibition is part of the Danysz Gallery’s ongoing commitment to artists who explore the cultural and social changes of...

    This exhibition is part of the Danysz Gallery’s ongoing commitment to artists who explore the cultural and social changes of our time through hybrid and socially engaged practices. Charles Hascoët never seeks to comment on or analyse society. His approach is above all emotional, autobiographical, and disarmingly sincere. Each canvas acts as a fragment of a personal narrative, an attempt to capture a persistent feeling, something that preoccupies and inhabits him, without seeking to rationalize it. Charles Hascoët shares with us his deep feeling that “the man who dreams cannot grow old”.

  • About the artist
    © Stéphane Bisseuil

    About the artist

    Born in Paris in 1985, Charles Hascoët is a French figurative painter who lives and works between New York and Paris. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2014, where he studied in the studios of James Rielly and Jean-Michel Alberola. As comfortable with a paintbrush as he is with turntables, Hascoët has also been a DJ since the 2000s, passionate about Detroit music, the minimal electro scene in Paris and Berlin, and Italo disco. This dual culture — visual and auditory — infuses his works with a gentle musicality, capturing moments suspended between euphoria and silence.

    Today, Charles Hascoët continues to work between New York and Paris, creating paintings that connect personal memory and collective history. His work invites viewers into a process of self-discovery, revealing various parts of ourselves through fantastical narratives.

     

     

     

     

  • Exhibition history

    2024
    'Kobayashi Maru' at Perrotin, New York
    'Moral Test' at Dumonteil, Shanghai 
    2022-2023
    'Unplugged' at Superzoom Paris
    'Open' at Art Genève 
    'It's Dangerous to Go Alone' at Galerie Edouard Manet
    2020-2021
    'Je longe mon souffle' at Superzoom
    'The Deep' at Dumonteil Shanghai
    'The Modern Dog Painter' at New Galerie
    2014
    Graduated from Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, beginning professional practice 

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