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Patrick Hughes: Double TroubleHis paintings are three-dimensional games which have dazzled fans as celebrated as Glenn Close and Oprah Winfrey.
But Patrick Hughes is a bit of a puzzle himself, says Andrew Barrow.
Is he one of our great, neglected artists?
Or merely a dandy Surrealist who has learnt to pull the wool over our eyes?
Anyone strolling down the busy thoroughfare of Great Eastern Street on the edge of the City of London can hardly fail to notice a huge brightly lit ground-floor window in which a skinny, clown-like figure can be seen working on the most peculiar sculptures.
Or are they paintings? And why do these artworks seem to twitch and tremble, duck and dive, as you walk past them?
The brightly dressed man-at-work is a creature called Patrick Hughes and these unstable, sticking-out objects, which now sell for as much as £65,000 each, are his latest and most lucrative invention.
Similar pieces by this prolific oddball now adorn private collections from Chicago to Cologne - including those of Oprah Winfrey and Glenn Close - and can also be goggled at in the British Library, the Birmingham City Art Gallery and other public spaces.
An exhibition of six vast new visual shockers opens at the Flowers East Gallery in London on 20 January.
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