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Archive for the ‘installations’ Category
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‘Komplette Zimmer’ Diango Hernández at Capitain Petzel
Opening 02.03.2013 – 13.04.2013
Lines follow strange patterns specially 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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‘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 …
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‘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 …
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‘Dream Liners’ by Eva Schmidt
Betritt man einen Laden, der mit Möbeln aus der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts handelt, taucht man in eine Atmosphäre der Stile und Ideologien, die jeweils ihre eigenen Bilder des wohnenden Menschen, der Familie, der Privatheit erzeugt haben. Epochales Denken der Moderne und der Postmoderne, Zeitgeist, verkörpert sich in Farben, Materialien, Proportionen. Dieser Situation hat Diango Hernández etwas hinzugefügt. „Dream Liners“ zeigt eine Reihe von …
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‘Sammlung im Prozess’ curated by Georg Elben
Eine Sammlung ist das Kernstück eines Museums, sie stellt neben Ausstellungen den bleibenden und identitätsstiftenden Existenzgrund eines Museums dar. Diese These stimmt auch für das Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, dessen Skulpturensammlung ein sehr spezielles Profil besitzt. Deshalb steht die Bestandsaufnahme der Sammlung des Museums am Anfang einer Reihe von Veränderungen, mit denen der neue Direktor Georg Elben seine Arbeit in Marl aufnimmt. Die neue Ausstellung „Sammlung …
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Diango Hernandez. Crystal Clear by Simone N.
Entropische Bewegungen der Erinnerung werden im Raum festgehalten: Der kubanische Künstler Diango Hernández ordnet neue Arbeiten in der Galerie Nicolas Krupp zu einem Kabinett, das unterschiedliche Zustände thermodynamischer Auflösungen, Verflüssigungen und Evaporationen von Bildern präsentiert. Basel – Erstmals seit seiner Einzelausstellung Revolution in der Kunsthalle Basel 2006 präsentiert Diango Hernández (*1970) wieder Arbeiten in der Schweiz. Basierend auf der Geschichte des Ateliers des Bildhauers Florencio …
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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 …