Hugo Servanin

Hugo Servanin's work revolves around the creation of sculptures that the artist calls Giants: hybrid beings that are first moulded onto human bodies, then assembled with a range of synthetic materials. Referencing the aesthetics of classical sculpture—busts or nude bodies presented on pedestals—Hugo Servanin's Giants express the visceral, fragile, and ephemeral nature of the human body. These characteristics are conveyed through a meticulous study of the body's structure and an empirical approach to materials. Once his sculptures are shaped, Servanin composes immersive installations in which, using a wide range of cutting-edge technologies and artificial intelligence, he recreates the conditions of organic life. 

Acting like a scientist in his laboratory, Servanin constantly invents new methods to animate his sculptures; for example, using humidification/evaporation procedures that gradually change their shape and surface colour, heat-monitoring incubators that crackle their skin, fans that make them breathe, or complex mechanical systems that distribute their bodily fluids. By bridging the traditions of ‘good form’ and cutting-edge technologies, Hugo Servanin composes alternative environments through which he critically analyses the success and failure of the cornucopian civilisation in which we live.