‘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, …

Mr. Fantasy Trigger and me: The Lost Bullet

by Diango Hernández, Düsseldorf 2011. Judy: I was safe when you found me. There was nothing that you could prove. When I saw you again, I couldn’t run away. I loved you so. I walked into danger, let you change me because I loved you and I wanted you. Oh, Scottie, oh Scottie please. You love me. Please keep me safe, please… Scottie: It’s …

‘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 …

‘Interrogando a Marcel’ Diango Hernández

A veces pienso en Marcel cuando me decía -el espectador es un ser invisible, un elemento además volátil y por lo tanto incontrolable, e insistía -si conocieras mi plan comprenderías que un espacio solo puede ser ocupado por una idea. No obstante a mis esfuerzos por definir un nuevo tipo de espectador jamás pude convencer a Marcel, mis ideas eran demasiado imprecisas, mis argumentos todos …

‘Interrogating Marcel’ by Diango Hernández

Sometimes I think about Marcel and I remember him telling me: ‘The visitor is an invisible being, a volatile element and therefore the visitor is by principle uncontrollable’ With vehemence Marcel would continue: ‘If you would know my plan, maybe you would understand that a single space can only be occupied by a single idea’. Yet to all my efforts towards defining a new type …

‘a kiss, a hat, a stamp’ with texts by Jade Niklai. Published by Distanz

a kiss. Diango Hernández’s practice is frequently described as ‘conceptual’: inspired by versions and visions of many lived realities. It is deeply rooted in his Cuban upbringing of the 1970-80s and therefore resonates with the attitudes and visual semantics of the Soviet era. Objects are found, materials are (re)appropriated and political rhetoric engages lived intelligence, subtle humor and personal sentiment.

Blood Mountain Foundation, a …

‘In relation with an accident’ by Diango Hernández

Most accidents are triggered by a combination of circumstances, sometimes these circumstances appear to us like mysterious and incoherent facts. A clear chain of intentional events or (CCHofIE) might not be considered an accident even though sometimes (CCHofIE) can cause irreversible damages to one or more of the factors that take part in a possible future accident. Accidental discoveries are clearly to me more relevant …

‘Breaking the Isolation’ by Gerhard Obermüller

Kunst als Anamnese (trans)nationaler Geschichtsvergessenheit. Die Geschichte einer kleinen Insel in der Karibik bleibt weiterhin von Bedeutung für uns. Auch lange nach dem Ende der bipolaren Weltordnung und des Kalten Krieges, für dessen Höhepunkt Kuba und die Kuba-Krise stehen, bleibt das kubanische Dilemma bestehen. Der Ausnahmezustand einer über fünf Jahrzehnte prolongierten Revolution bestimmt weiterhin einen Alltag des Mangels und der Isolation, das Land bleibt …

‘Line Dreamers’ at Haus im Südem c/o Boucherie – 13.04. / 28.05.2011

There will be always a fundamental confrontation between an object and its drawing, the same kind of confrontation that can occur in between the idea and the words that express it. This confrontation happens not only in an abstract form it happens as a real fact, bringing the object to exist in a permanent disappointed reality, a reality that can’t be as perfect and ideal …

‘Tropical Aliens’, based on ‘Aparatos’ (works on paper by Blanco Lopez)

- Can you tell me what’s happening here?, – I could tell you what’s happening, but I don’t know if it would really tell you what’s happening. (Solaris, Andrey Tarkovskiy 1972)

Blanco Lopez was one of those Cuban artist that back in the early 60′s embraced the Socialist Realism but already in the late 60′s Blanco L. started painting spaceships and ‘aparatos’ a sort of …

‘Moonwalkers’ by Diango Hernández –2008

Ci sono tre giorni importanti nella mia memoria il primo quando ho visto il primo seno o popolarmente parlando la prima tetta, il secondo quando ho fato un’antenna di FM che ho sistemato sopra il mio tetto e il terso momento è stato quando ho dovuto togliere la mia antenna di FM. Particolarmente il secondo episodio non lo ricordo cosi bene perché ero tutto agitato …

‘Ti dichiaro colpevole’ by Diango hernández –2008

Immagina che un giorno ti svegli di mattino e come di solito; vai a prendere il pane, burro, latte e un paio d’uovo per fare collazione, arrivi in negozio e il proprietario dice subito: Non abbiamo più niente di questo che mi hai chiesto. Il “più” pronunciato da lui ha suonato ovviamente infinito e senza discussione. Nella mia faccia si disegna un segno pallido di …