Hyde’s work, such as he developed it in the nineties, consists of an experimentation, deliberately in a do-it-yourself enthusiasm and free of any aesthetic obligation, of any possibility of a meaning painting ; it consists on the emission, on multiple objects, of various signs of painting.

In that way, and although completely singularly, it totally belongs to his time, the time of an abstraction post-duchampian and post-warholian, in wich instils, infra-thin, the distance that separates the thing from the sign of this thing, the language and the meta-language.(…)

Extract from Le Saut de la barrière by Michel Gauthier