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Archive for the ‘sculptures’ Category
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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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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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‘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 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 …
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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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‘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, …
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‘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 …
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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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‘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 …