Arturo Herrera
dal 6/4/2005 al 19/6/2005
Segnalato da
6/4/2005
Arturo Herrera
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
The show includes photographs, collages, painted wood sculptures, cut felt pieces and large wall paintings. The artist often uses a fragmented language ranging from animated films to art history to decontextualize inherent narratives without eradicating the coded referentiality of the image. The resulting works are hybrids that exist between the explicit and the implicit, appealing to transgressive impulses of the unconscious.
Solo show
The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea is proud to present Arturo
Herrera's first European survey exhibition. Born in Caracas, Venezuela,
and now living in Berlin, Arturo Herrera interweaves elements from
Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and the visual language of
popular culture in order to construct works that are full of associative
meanings and lingering references.
Arturo Herrera's multilayered body of work includes photographs, collages,
painted wood sculptures, cut felt pieces and large wall paintings. The
artist often uses a fragmented language ranging from animated films to art
history to decontextualize inherent narratives without eradicating the
coded referentiality of the image.
The resulting works are hybrids that exist between the explicit and the
implicit, appealing to transgressive impulses of the unconscious. Herrera's
works contradict expected readings to create a liminal space between
disorder and order, where aesthetics and ambiguity rule and resonate.
For this exhibition Arturo Herrera will create two new wall paintings
especially designed for the spaces of the Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporanea. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
Arturo Herrera was born in 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela. Solo and
project-based exhibitions of his work have been held at Brent Sikkema
Gallery in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the ICA Philadelphia, the
Whitney Museum of America Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center in New York, and the Renaissance Society of the University of
Chicago, as well as on the website of the Dia Art Foundation. He is the
recipient of fellowships from YADDO, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts,
the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artpace, the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and DAAD in Berlin. He lives
and works in Berlin and New York.enebre, Sweden.
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea
First Floor and basement
Valle Inclan s/n 15704
Santiago de Compostela