Launching ‘Home’ by Diango Hernández at Ivory Press, Madrid

The studio as a ‘second home’ Cuban artist Diango Hernández (Sancti Spiritus, 1970) presented his latest book, Home, at Ivorypress on 30 November. The publication, produced by dh-artworks and published by Alexander and Bonin Publishing, is an introspective journey into the artist’s studio in Düsseldorf.

As the director of Ivorypress Antonio Sanz describes it, ‘this is a intimate, brave book, with no concessions to being …

‘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 …

‘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 …

Diango Hernández: Cómo educarse para vivir en el Capitalismo por Dermis Perez Leon

Para mi el arte siempre existe en relación absoluta con temas autobiográficos. Esto no significa que entienda o lea la obra de arte como autobiografía o algún tipo de historia, pero si significa que cada artista, incluyéndome a mí mismo, es parte de lo que crea.1

La primera exposición personal de Diango Hernández (Sancti Spiritus, Cuba 1970) como artista individual fue Amateur en la galería …

On a future that has never taken place by Vanessa Joan Müller

“Spatial three-dimensional images are the dreams of society”, wrote Siegfired Kracauer in 1930, in his thoughts on the building of a characteristic space of that time, an employment agency. The conditions of society are significantly impressed on the space built and on its furnishing, although this is not all. “Every typical space is brought into being by typical social relations that express themselves in it …

Diango Hernández. Sitting in the south by Luigi Fassi

After meeting Franz Fanon, who was then terminally ill with leukaemia, in Rome in 1961, Jean-Paul Sartre accepted his request to write the preface to The Wretched of the Earth, published by Fanon in Paris during that same year, just before his premature death. This contribution was a sarcastic and peremptory text in which Sartre introduced the book arguing for the necessity to demystify the …

Revolutionary Mum. E-mail correspondence between Diango Hernández and Yilmaz Dziewior

Yilmaz Dziewior: Let’s start from the beginning; you were born in 1970 in Sancti Spíritus, in the central part of Cuba. Tell me about your childhood. What were your parents’ professions? Did they bring you in contact with culture? How did they cope with the political situation in Cuba at that time?

Diango Hernández: My mother was a high school teacher and later became a …

Diango Hernandez. Crystal Clear by Simone Neuenschwander

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 …

‘Home means belonging – and vice versa’

Diango Hernández in interview with Patrizia Dander. DANDER: You were born in Cuba in 1970, just a decade after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and Fidel Castro’s takeover, first as Premier, later as President of Cuba. That means you belong to a generation that grew up in a fully implemented Socialist system. In 2003 you left the country for Europe – first Italy, then, …

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 …

‘Crystal Clear’, Diango Hernández at Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel

The humid image. Diango Hernández, Düsseldorf. A massive amount of water particles went back, invisibly and slowly, to where they came from – to the sky. Only rests of colors, dissolved paper and fragments of plaster and terracotta remained on the floor. The shelves and some tables were still in good shape, but most of the sculptures were broken or just vanished because of …

‘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 …