City & Me
Sema D'Acosta
The work of Hubertus von Hohenlohe (Mexico City, 1959) brings us closer to the pulse of contemporary society with extreme precision. Not only because his usual setting is the hectic city of the 21st century, but also because his pieces show a complex superimposition of layers that mix reality and fiction, public space and intimacy, vanity and distinction. If we stop to look closely at his work, we realise that his work has been a precursor of some of the symptoms that shape our world today, especially after the definitive consolidation of the digital and the Internet. His recognisable self-portraits in the urban context are the precedent of a narcissism that has flooded the social networks in a short time, her style anticipated the rise of the selfie with the smartphone, the of the selfie with the smartphone, a photograph as an experience of place that has spread rapidly thanks to the spread with acceleration thanks to the ubiquitous immediacy enabled by globalisation and applications such as Instagram. Prowling the pavements with his camera, the author acts as an anonymous as someone anonymous who seeks and at the same time finds himself. Able to connect quickly with the people he portrays and the places he visits, the vibrant intensity of his work channels the street energy of his work channels street energy by intertwining experience and representation.
Sema D'Acosta
The work of Hubertus von Hohenlohe (Mexico City, 1959) brings us closer to the pulse of contemporary society with extreme precision. Not only because his usual setting is the hectic city of the 21st century, but also because his pieces show a complex superimposition of layers that mix reality and fiction, public space and intimacy, vanity and distinction. If we stop to look closely at his work, we realise that his work has been a precursor of some of the symptoms that shape our world today, especially after the definitive consolidation of the digital and the Internet. His recognisable self-portraits in the urban context are the precedent of a narcissism that has flooded the social networks in a short time, her style anticipated the rise of the selfie with the smartphone, the of the selfie with the smartphone, a photograph as an experience of place that has spread rapidly thanks to the spread with acceleration thanks to the ubiquitous immediacy enabled by globalisation and applications such as Instagram. Prowling the pavements with his camera, the author acts as an anonymous as someone anonymous who seeks and at the same time finds himself. Able to connect quickly with the people he portrays and the places he visits, the vibrant intensity of his work channels the street energy of his work channels street energy by intertwining experience and representation.
September 7, 2023
