Hugo Schaer

Hugo Schaer was born in 1952 in Lucerne, Switzerland. A graduate of the School of Design in Lucerne and of the Académie Grand Chaumière in Paris, he began participating in exhibitions and interdisciplinary art projects in the 1980s, mostly with video making, painting, and sculptures. Deeply involved in the Swiss artistic and cultural scene and later that of Odessa, Ukraine, he now collaborates with the Italian “Fabbrica Ceramiche Giuseppe Mazzotti 1903″ in Albisola, creating unique sculptures and ceramics marked by a distinctive yet sophisticated style.