Hugo Ciappi is a Franco-Italian painter who studied at the University of Florence. His work is informed by a soft gaze, capturing intimate scenes of daily life.

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His subjects are often caught indulging in sensual pleasures or vices, evoking the bitter-sweetness of working-class life. Both through his subjects and his technique, Ciappi conveys the grotesque excesses of our zeitgeist.

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The overabundance of paint and thick brush strokes hit the spectator with the wasteful vices of a consumerist society.

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Hugo Ciappi currently lives in London.