Mario Hugo

 
 

Artist profile

If you find a used book with its flyleaves removed, there’s a good chance Mario Hugo is responsible. The 1984 born artist, designer, and illustrator often spends his weekends rummaging the racks at New York City’s Strand bookstore. He buys old books, extracting the thick, blank pages and often returns the harvested books to the store.

His work is predominantly black-and-white with spare use of color - he confesses to be partly color-blind. The overall effect is at once new and old: technically precise, yet aged and imperfect. His mysterious work has been in „The New York Times Magazine“ and the cover of „Flaunt“.

Mario Hugo often uses grainy textures in abstract geometry. Like in one of his best artworks ever which he made in the time he worked on a new album cover for „Beck“. Unfortunately these great artworks never got used. What a shame! So Mario adapted those surreal images for an timeless Ucon Artist Feature.

You can find more of his work on his website.