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I tawt I taw a puddy tat! In my twenties & early thirties I worked on cruise liners as an art dealer, selling a wide var...
15/01/2026

I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

In my twenties & early thirties I worked on cruise liners as an art dealer, selling a wide variety of commercial artworks, like this little Tweety bird etching, Peanuts & Pooh. They are from the Official Warner Bros Looney Tunes suite of Limited Edition Memorabilia, hand signed, numbered and hand coloured.
Available as part of the Stockroom Clearout Sale now in the WebShop.

Thank you for the wonderful response to this impromptu Stockroom Clearout! We’ll be offering the rest of the items on our website until the end of the weekend, after which I will make a massive, colourful bonfire with the remaining works*

*Okay I might try Yaga or Marketplace before the Bonfires are lit.

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13/01/2026

It’s true, I have too much art
 even if I thought this phrase was never ever EVER pass these lips of mine!

So, before everything is offered on our friendly *FB Marketplace* I wanted to offer it to my friends, first.

Check out the Webshop at Noon tomorrow for a selection of seriously discounted paintings, drawings and prints- many of which will be offered at way less than it’s worth or even what the frame cost!

A new year needs new art - and we need space - so please enjoy this unusual, stupidly priced Stockroom Sale as a New Year’s blessing to you!

Please note the prices will by no means be logical or market related and therefore are offered on a first come first serve basis. International Shipping available and will be calculated separately.

13/01/2026

It’s true, I have too much art
 even if I thought this phrase was never ever EVER pass these lips of mine!

So, before everything is offered on our friendly *FB Marketplace* I wanted to offer it to my friends, first.

Check out the Webshop at Noon tomorrow for a selection of seriously discounted paintings, drawings and prints- many of which will be offered at way less than it’s worth or even what the frame cost!

A new year needs new art - and we need space - so please enjoy this unusual, stupidly priced Stockroom Sale as a New Year’s blessing to you!

Please note the prices will by no means be logical or market related and therefore are offered on a first come first serve basis. International Shipping available andwill be calculated separately.

‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Force Quit’ are acrylic-on-canvas compositions that speak in the dialect of data, but dream in t...
10/12/2025

‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Force Quit’ are acrylic-on-canvas compositions that speak in the dialect of data, but dream in the language of street corners and subconscious geometry.

BLACK KOKI’s mark-making is intuitive, but never accidental. His canvases channel the rawness of Neo-Expressionism, the digital detritus of the 90s, and the spatial tension of a city constantly buffering. These aren’t just paintings — they’re visual syntax for the contemporary condition.

Available to shop & ship at www.hugomodern.art

A quiet monument to pose and wind swept movement, this silkscreen by Anton Kannemeyer distills the stark elegance of the...
09/12/2025

A quiet monument to pose and wind swept movement, this silkscreen by Anton Kannemeyer distills the stark elegance of the Bloekomboom into a study of line, texture and presence. Rendered with masterful restraint, it evokes both botanical precision and emotional resonance.

Kannemeyer—born in 1967, with an MA in Fine Arts from Stellenbosch—has long been a provocative force in South African visual culture. His career spans decades of teaching, exhibiting, and publishing, with works held in the permanent collections of MoMA (NY), SFMOMA (SF), and Iziko National Gallery (Cape Town). Represented in New York, Paris, and Vienna, his voice remains unmistakably rooted in the South African soil.

This print is an Exhibition Proof from a limited edition of 10.
Size: 500 x 700 mm

DM to collect

A meditation in motion. A Cape Town rhythm translated into colour, line, and form.Paul Senyol is an abstract painter who...
08/12/2025

A meditation in motion. A Cape Town rhythm translated into colour, line, and form.

Paul Senyol is an abstract painter whose work distills the fragments of everyday life into a poetic, visual language. His compositions—like this one—emerge as intuitive responses to the spaces he moves through, drawing equally from urban textures and natural environments.

Born and based in Cape Town, Senyol’s fascination with marks and visual culture began in his teens, paging through skateboarding magazines that led him to early street art. Today, his studio practice blends acrylics, pastels, ink, pencils, and spray paint—each chosen for its gesture, its voice.

He mines public libraries for graphics, album covers, and illustrations, building a layered archive that informs his art. October Study 01 carries this lineage: spontaneous yet deliberate, rooted in movement, surface, and the quiet pulse of the city.

October Study 01
by Paul Senyol

‘In the fields of feel’ current works available at www.hugomodern.art

Not many South African artists wield satire with the precision and power of Conrad Botes. Born in the Klein Karoo and sh...
05/12/2025

Not many South African artists wield satire with the precision and power of Conrad Botes. Born in the Klein Karoo and shaped by decades of interrogating comic-book aesthetics, Botes brings his unmistakable visual language to Voodoo People — a woodcut that is as bold as it is unsettling.

Co-founder of the iconic Bitterkomix, Botes has long confronted the tensions of race, gender, violence, and power in South African society. In this work, his razor-sharp lines cut through both paper and myth, offering a confrontation that feels ancient, contemporary, and eerily intimate all at once.

A major figure in South African contemporary art with exhibitions spanning MoMA (NYC) to 1–54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Botes continues to push the edges of narrative and critique.

Available now online or Request the full catalogue via DM.

A single strand becomes a map of memory.Leandri Erlank’s work traces the quiet terrain between presence and production —...
30/11/2025

A single strand becomes a map of memory.

Leandri Erlank’s work traces the quiet terrain between presence and production —where fragility insists, and the body remembers what the mind has long buried. Using her own hair as both medium and metaphor, she draws lines that hold tension, repetition, and the unspoken weight of lived experience.

Graduating with distinction from Stellenbosch University in 2014 under the mentorship of Ledelle Moe, Erlank has developed a visual language that privileges the intimate and the ephemeral. Each line—painstakingly traced with a single strand of hair—becomes a site of quiet insistence, where repetition and tension give form to what is often unspeakable.

Her drawings are not merely marks on paper, but embodied cartographies: delicate yet unyielding records of what the conscious mind may forget, but the tissue continues to carry. In these works, beauty is not the absence of pain, but its transmutation.

Peruse our catalogue for available works of ‘In the fields of feel’ exhibition at the link in bio.

‘Beyond the hills’ is an imagined landscape conjuring a dreamlike familiarity—at once intimate and uncanny—rendered in a...
28/11/2025

‘Beyond the hills’ is an imagined landscape conjuring a dreamlike familiarity—at once intimate and uncanny—rendered in a masterful fusion of contrasting perspectives and our beloved South African terrain.

In his recent acrylic works, Cape Town-based artist MJ Lourens channels the spectral legacy of Max Ernst, drawing particularly from the surrealist’s experimental decalcomania method. This process—where pigment is pressed and lifted to reveal organic, unpredictable textures—becomes a portal through which Lourens summons landscapes that hover between memory and mirage.

His canvases are not depictions of specific locales, but rather psychogeographic echoes—terrain shaped as much by emotion and recollection as by topography. The resulting vistas feel eerily known, as if glimpsed in a dream or half-remembered from childhood. Craggy outcrops dissolve into cloudlike veils; roads meander toward vanishing points that never quite resolve. The palette, often muted and melancholic, furthers the sense of reverie and temporal dislocation.

Lourens’s landscapes resist the literal. Instead, they invite the viewer into a space of associative wandering, where the boundaries between land, sky, and psyche blur. In this way, his work becomes a cartography of longing—a visual archaeology of place, time, and the subconscious.

MJ Lourens
Beyond the hills
Acrylic on board
700mm x 1600mm
Framed in Walnut
2025

DM for more information on this painting.

“Inspired by camera obscura, optical illusions, andthe ways in which the mind’s eye interprets light, depth, and movemen...
27/11/2025

“Inspired by camera obscura, optical illusions, and
the ways in which the mind’s eye interprets light, depth, and movement, I began experimenting with
mirrors cut into geometric forms. Small and portable—designed to fit into my backpack—
these objects became companions on my travels, tools for exploring landscapes through the lens of combinatory play.

The series first took shape while passing through “Die Knersvlakte” en route to Namaqualand in the Northern Cape for the annual wild flower season. In this vast and arid
terrain, fragments of mirrors reframed the environment, bending space into multiple dimensions and inviting chance encounters between nature and abstraction.

This practice mirrors my own journey of self-reflection and growth over the past year—a coming-of-age shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and solitude.

While photographing in the veld, an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale struck nearby! This moment felt
symbolic of the inner shifts I was experiencing—subtle tremors of change that reshaped my sense of self and perception.

Through this series, I invite viewers to pause, to play, and to reconsider how perception is
shaped— by light, by place, and by the shifting mirrors of the self.“

These Photographic prints on aluminium Dibond are available. Please DM your interest.

Jean de Wet enjoys walking from A to B much more than he enjoys driving. I asked him about this specific viewpoint and h...
23/11/2025

Jean de Wet enjoys walking from A to B much more than he enjoys driving. I asked him about this specific viewpoint and he noted that through walking to his commitments he has a much larger freedom of connection with his immediate environment, which ultimately leads to more inspired paintings like this one. A glimpse into his mind’s eye, what a treat! What a place, what a time to be alive!

With a paradoxical perspective.. and always with a slight sense of humour, Jean ultimately strives toward creating dreamlike representations of reality, through
playful experimentation with limitation and restraint.

This painting is available, please DM for more information.

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