‘Visible’ (Homage to the square and colonialism)

The book pages with furniture images that I used for these series of collages come from a 1930′s German book about colonial furniture style. Still in the 18th century for many Europeans the Colonies were remote and dangerous places, only suitable for the adventurers minds, around the late 19th century the western world ‘rediscovered’ the colonies. For this time, as the Romantics did before with …

‘Komplette Zimmer’ Diango Hernández at Capitain Petzel

Lines follow strange patterns especially if they are drawn on a piece of paper. Maybe nothing better than a drawing can describe that strange moment when thoughts are brought into the same reality that our bodies temporarily occupy.
I walked many times over Colon*, I crossed it in the morning and in the afternoon; also while was raining and while the sun transformed the entire …

Interviewing Diango Hernández by Jonas Schenk

Jonas Schenk: Diango, at first I would like to hear about your thoughts concerning a problem that is written into the – one might say – DNA of every museum and its vast collection, just like the German Federal collection. An object that gets embraced by the walls of the museum has its entity as being an actual artwork finally acknowledged, thus once entering …

Strata. Probing the LESTORY (Lessons in History) by Nuno Faria

(Archeology) is nothing more than a re-writing: that is, preserved in the form of exteriority, a regulated transformation of what has already been written. It is not a return to the innermost secret of the origin; it is the systematic description of the discourse-object. Michel Foucault

A utopia yet to be created, an unfinished design, a monument-atopy, a map without places: Who could respond with …

‘Four presidents’ and ‘In a colonial style’ Diango Hernández for Alexander and Bonin

‘Four Presidents’ and ‘In a Colonial Style’ will be presented in ArtBasel Miami Beach by Alexander and Bonin NY at K06. The sculpture as well as the series of framed paperworks are new works. ‘Four Presidents’ is made out of four desk’s wooden and plastic displays that belonged to a parliament. ‘In a colonial Style’ is a series of pages coming from a German …

The Castel in the Air, curated by Adam Budak

The exhibition “THE CASTLE IN THE AIR. Séance of Imagination” is a subtle projection of a hidden (other) life of the Castle. In this choreography of imagination, the Castle is a phantasmagoria and a mirage: oneiric theatre of a soul, a possible abstraction of a thought and a symbol of a fantasized encounter – outside of a history, beyond time and memory, on a margin …

Diango Hernandez, Drawing the Human Figure, curated by Nuno Faria, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania

The skull, a hard, bone structure, is the shape-giving form which makes all heads relatively the same. Of course, there are variations in the shapes of skulls. There are long-headed men and wide-headed men and skulls vary in shape in different geographic locales. But in essence, the skull can be reduced to the general flat shape of an oval and in volume, an egg-shaped form. …

The Foam Collector (Imaginary exhibition for the Havana Biennial)

This is not the first time that I exhibit my work in Havana, but it has been a while since my last time. Since I came across the idea of exhibiting during the next Havana Biennial, I have been very confused. Presenting my thoughts to an audience that can’t see what I can and vice-versa, heavily upsets me. Havana can be the best venue for …

Diango Hernández at Nicolas Krupp by Quinn Latimer. Artforum

Diango Hernández has in the past noted, both slyly and acutely, his own ‘tropical sensitivities’. Certainly they could be discerned in the Düsseldorf-based Cuban artist’s quietly exhilarating exhibition in Basel, though not in the conventional or clichéd forms that evocations of the tropics so often take; there were no potted palms or brightly patterned tiled. Instead, the elegant if strangely alien modernism (Europe by way …

‘Diango Hernández. Lonely Fingers’ by Annelie Pohlen. Kunstforum International

Als Georg Elben 2011 die Leitung des Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten übernimmt, handelt er so wie nahezu alle neuen Direktoren in ihren Häusern. Er inspiziert die hauseigenen Güter und Leihgaben. Der im Museumsnamen ausgewiesene Schwerpunkt ist unübersehbar. Man begegnet ihm unweigerlich auf dem Weg durch die ausgedehnten Grünflächen im Außenraum. Einen überregionalen Rang hat sich das Institut indes vor allem mit dem unter Uwe Rüth vorangetriebenen Schwerpunkt …

‘Folded Tiger’, Philara Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany

The following passage appears (textually) in the first page of Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s most glorious and delicious book, Tres Tristes Tigres (Three Sad Tigers) 1967, translated into English as Three Trapped Tigers. Because this book and for this book I have made ‘Folded Tiger’. My thoguhts about tigers match perfectly with my fantasies about color and freedom and this happened because you Señor Guillermo. For …

‘Lonely fingers’ (curated by Georg Elben), Marl Skulpturenmuseum

In that cold ‘second hand store’, in the middle of an immense chaos and covered with multiple layers of dust, I found Anni’s W. drawings folder. It was sold to me for 3 Euros. I walked away from that place, slowly and with guilt. In that moment I didn’t know if whether I was a thief or a pioneer. I discovered an extraordinary beautiful thing …