"My (EX) HABITANT series is informed by my research of environmental issues about my primary focus on animals and their habitats. 

Searching out and identifying various species has led me to explore, the unique environments of individual species, maintained by conservation efforts to avoid extinction. 

In addition to focusing on the loss of animal habitat, I explore forms and textures from architecture and animal life, portraying the interrupted cycles existing throughout the natural world.(...)

Hugo Martínez Rapari

(EX)HABITANT series

Variable dimensions

2021

"Through my work, I hope to inspire others to more deeply explore their local environment and the health of its complex ecosystems.

Animals exiled due to human habitat represent the choices we have made in the past. Animals and humans are critically dependent on their own natural habitats, however, only human current and future choices, enabled by medicine and technology, may be constructive or destructive. Modern utopias need to be animal friendly to overcome the global environmental crisis.(...)

Hugo Martínez Rapari

(EX)HABITANT series

Variable dimensions

2021

"Nature shaped the climate before human decisions affected the health of all ecosystems on the planet. Climate change, habitat loss, overhunting, overfishing, and illegal wildlife trade are all contributing to a modern mass extinction of flora and fauna that scientists predict by the end of the century.

Like small installations, this series gives an impression of the animal life, while informing the viewer about their environmental fragility when cities invade the land. Very sensitive to their environments, birds, butterflies, bulls, horses and fishes are often a good indicator of the health of a particular ecosystem. (...)

Hugo Martínez Rapari

(EX)HABITANT series

Variable dimensions

2021

"I combine kiln-fused glass on animal with digital manipulated photography of architecture in different and impossible perspectives (inspired by Pablo Picasso´s cubism) to achieve a balance between realism and abstraction.

Through realistically glass animals and incoherent perspectives of human habitat, I create small atmospheres of erosion, change, loss of gravity and isolation.(...)

Hugo Martínez Rapari

(EX)HABITANT series

Variable dimensions

2021

"Through my work, I hope to inspire others to more deeply explore their local environment and the health of its complex ecosystems.

Animals exiled due to human habitat represent the choices we have made in the past. 

Animals and humans are critically dependent on their own natural habitats, however, only human current and future choices, enabled by medicine and technology, may be constructive or destructive. 

Modern utopias need to be animal friendly to overcome the global environmental crisis.(...)"

Hugo Martínez Rapari

EX(HABITANT) series

Variable dimensions

2021

Some artworks of this series:

Bull in the historic square | kiln-fused glass, digital print on hard wood and other discarded materials | 80 x 50 x 160 cm

Butterflies in the activity center | kiln-fused glass and digital print on hard wood | 40 x 40 x 15 cm

Fish in the resilient city | kiln-fused glass and digital print on hard wood | 40 x 50 x 8 cm

Goldfishes in the superblock | kiln-fused glass and digital print on hard wood | 50 x 50 x 8 cm

Hugo Martínez Rapari

(EX)HABITANT series

Variable dimensions

2021