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Archive for the ‘alexander and bonin’ Category
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Group exhibitions
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(by HL)……The objects displayed in this comfortless roomscape point to specific conditions in Cuba: the elegant teacup balanced precariously on the back of the sofa is empty (tea has been unobtainable for domestic use since the 1960s); the light bulb cannot be used (incandescent lighting has been banned since 2005); the plate commemorating President and Mrs John Kennedy dates from the begging …
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‘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 …
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Studio Diaries, excerpts 2006-2010 from ‘H’ a book about Diango Hernandez’s studio
ENTRY NO. 3 -Today I was confronted with a dilemma: to make a painting or to make a drawing. I don’t get in the habit of coming to the studio with a fixed idea, once I enter the studio, the things I have around me easily distract me. It seems the studio works as an accumulation of elements, ideas and thoughts; they all are connected …
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‘If I send you this’, Diango Hernández at Alexander and Bonin NY (installation views)
Hernández has transformed the architecture of the first floor gallery to accommodate two site specific installations which re-appropriate the geometric ‘cat eye’ shape of Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1975 “Days End.” He has re-imagined this cut to represent an escape from a space of restriction to a space of freedom, and has re-termed it an exeunt. For the artist, the exeunt represents the highest expression of the …
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‘If I send you this’, Diango Hernández at Alexander and Bonin NY
Exeunt by Diango Hernández, Düsseldorf 2011. In 1967 my great-grandfather wrote in a letter to my grandmother: If I would find a way to escape this country -and most important- if I would find a place where we can live all your sisters and brothers together, would you like to come with us? In an earlier letter sent also to my grandmother in 1958, …
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‘H’ a book about Diango Hernández’s studio in Düsseldorf
H is an unique book about the studio of contemporary artist Diango Hernández. This book depicts with a subtle series of black and white photos the artist’s working space in Düsseldorf. By permanently documenting his studio Hernández lets us see how silent and intimate is his relationship with objects, books and memories. ‘Home’ contains an extensive interview with Patrizia Dander and Diango Hernández which allows …
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‘Warten oder Fliegen…’ by Annelie Pohlen –2010
‘Warten oder Fliegen – Die ‘Power’ des Zeichenstiftes im Werk des Amateurs. Als die 68er Kuba noch als Insel der Zukunft feiern, erlebt Diango Hernández Castros ‘Vision’ vom neuen Menschen in einer Internatsschule auf dem Land als Alptraum. Auch wenn er seine eigenen Texte wie die seiner Interpreten mit zahlreichen Deutungsmöglichkeiten aus dem kubanischen Alltag versieht, diese wie alle weiteren Erfahrungen in seinem Heimatland …
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‘TH-INK’, Alexander and Bonin, NY –2009
An exhibition of Diango Hernández’s Drawing (Third hand), 2006 will open April 4th at Alexander and Bonin. The work, a set of fifty ink drawings, evolved out of Hernández’s interest in the Polish artist Andrzej Wróblewski (1927 – 1957).
Hernández was drawn to Wróblewski because, in him, he saw a “person confused and affected by a political system: confused because I no longer know how …
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‘El Manual del Tractorista Arrepentido’, Zona Maco, Mexico City (curated by Adriano Pedrosa) –2009
Bookshelves can be organized using many different systems and preferences. In a bookshelf a book could have a fat “neighbor” telling maybe a love story and a tall one that talks about how beautiful is the sea. Certainly there is a lot going on inside any bookshelf and I am sure that in any of them live perfectly together differences and contradictions coexist in a …
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‘Objects of Ridicule’, Alexander and Bonin, NY – 2007
An exhibition of new work by Diango Hernández will open on December 1st at Alexander and Bonin. This will be the artist’s second one-person exhibition at the gallery.
Hernández’s new work addresses conflict as a mirror reflection of political objectives onto historical surfaces. The distortions created by the reflected images of tangible examples such as borders, oil, and bombs onto the non-tangible language of prejudice, …
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‘Spies’, Alexander & Bonin, NY –2006
Diango Hernández’ first exhibition in North America will open at Alexander and Bonin on April 15, 2006. Spies will be shown concurrently with Traitors at Galería Pepe Cobo in Madrid. Born in 1970 in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, the artist has lived in Europe since 2003. The work in both exhibitions reflect his analysis of the iconography and rhetoric of the Cuban revolution and the tensions …