Hugo
Hectus

EXECAL Resident at La Becque in July 2024

Hugo Hectus

BIO

Born in Montpellier in 1997, Hugo Hectus is a French visual artist living and working in Paris, whose practice aims to deconstruct modes of communication in an attempt to outline their autonomous, subjective essence and a new sensitive language. His artistic production operates in a dual relationship: the obscure one maintained by art and literature, which he articulates under the idea of “solid poetry”, seeking through his sculptures the appearance of an ideal language, a language of desire, populated by other cultural ghosts from the English, German, Italian and Latin languages. A language “in space”, frozen in matter as if it pre-existed everything, enabling him to write without describing or showing, and constructed in a lexicon specific to each “Mottogories” – symbolic phrases of sorts that become matter and are integrated into the sculptures themselves. After studying at the Sorbonne Paris IV University, Hectus graduated with a Bachelor Graphic Design from ECAL in 2021, and a BA in Visual Arts from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA). He is currently pursuing a Master in Visual Arts at ENSBA. Hectus’s work has recently featured in group exhibitions at Tunnel Tunnel in Lausanne (2023), Krone Couronne in Biel (2022), One gee in fog in Geneva (2022), and in solo exhibitions at ENSBA in Paris (2022) and ECAL in Lausanne (2021). Portrait photo: Pavo Marinovic

Projects

Hugo Hectus – Visite de Courtoisie — Vol. 1

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Hugo Hectus – Visite de Courtoisie — Vol. 1

by Hugo Hectus

Prix BCV | Visite de Courtoisie – Vol 1 is a 280-page art critical journal that recounts an 8-hour dinner performance on contemporary art that I organised at the Arsenic theatre (Lausanne, CH) with artists, curators, art historians and theatre programmers.

Communication of an event

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Communication of an event

with Diego Bontognali, Nicole Udry

Editorial design S5 2021

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Editorial design S5 2021

with Gilles Gavillet, Jonathan Hares

Typography Design S4 2020

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Typography Design S4 2020

with Aurèle Sack

Information design

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Information design

with Angelo Benedetto

For the information design course the students have been asked to design a cartographic poster based on a film in the road movie genre, in a direct or abstract representation.

Design Context

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Design Context

with Nicole Udry

Typography Design S3 2019

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Typography Design S3 2019

with Aurèle Sack

1,15m²

GRAPHIC DESIGN

1,15m²

with Sacha Léopold (Syndicat)

During this workshop week, the students worked on the curation, mediation and placement of their own exhibition. The students selected a corpus of works from the iconographic and textual collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both based in New York. The exhibition space, 1.15m² (refering to the surface area of an F4 poster) is printable, hangable and foldable. It is both a surface but also a base or a volume. The students' results question the means of reproduction and representation of the works in the design of an exhibition.

Moins Zéro

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Moins Zéro

with Denis Roueche, Prune Simon-Vermot

During 4 days, the students in the first year of the Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Photography were confronted with the weather in the Far North of La Chaux-de-Fond and presented the results of their work in the form of a giant calendar at QUARTIER GENERAL. With the participation of students: Pauline Baldinetti, Ines Barrionuevo, David Benito Py, Alexandre Brunisholz, Emma Chapuis, Lucien Grandjean, Hugo Hectus, Elena Najdovski, Julie Neuhaus, Laetitia Paroz, Guillaume Pavia, Caroline Perrenoud, Amanda Puna, Alizée Quinche, Clara Roumegoux, Steven Rüthy, Julie Ryser, Guillaume Schilter, Samuel Schmidt, Timo Tiffert, Laura Trummer, Adeline Vermot, Loris Wahler, Justine Willa Teachers: Denis Roueche, Prune Simon Vermot Assistants: Amaury Hamon, Clément Lambelet, Olivia Schenker

Workshop with Giliane Cachin

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Workshop with Giliane Cachin

with Giliane Cachin

Poster design communicating a fictitious opening of editorial publications.

 Communication of a press article

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Communication of a press article

with Nicole Udry

Communication of a chosen press article. Second year course of graphic design in context, centered on image creation and editorial design.

Editorial Design S1 2018

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Editorial Design S1 2018

with Harry Bloch

Image creation

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Image creation

with Guy Meldem

Editorial Design S3 2019

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Editorial Design S3 2019

with Diego Bontognali

Tourism

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Tourism

with Nicolas Haeni, Robert Huber

Graphic designer Robert Huber and photographer Nicolas Haeni piloted a transversal workshop between the first years Bachelor Graphic Design and Photography. By joining their complementary skills, several groups of students selected a swiss tourism-related activity, offering an alternative and offbeat vision in edition form.

Workshop Gilles de Brock

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Workshop Gilles de Brock

by Pauline Baldinetti, Inés Barrionuevo, Emilie Bouchet, Emma Chapuis, Isabel Garcia Argos, Hugo Hectus, Elena Najdovski, Julie Neuhaus, Thaïs Nguyen Huu, Lynne Nougou, Laetitia Paroz, Guillaume Pavia, Ares Pedroli, Amanda Puna, Julie Ryser, Samuel Schmidt, Timo Tiffert, Laura Trummer, Adeline Vermot

Screenprinting workshop supervised by Gilles de brock, assisted by Sylvain Croci-Torti