Diango Hernandez
dal 1/12/2008 al 1/12/2008
Segnalato da
1/12/2008
Diango Hernandez
Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach
Diamonds and Stones: My Education is a Project Space Cuban artist living and working in Dusseldorf, Germany. This project is presented by Federico Luger Gallery, Milano and includes a series of photographic works and an installation. In the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach.
Diango Hernández, Diamonds and Stones: My Education. Diango Hernández
is a Cuban artist living and working in Dusseldorf, Germany. This
project is presented by Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy.
The
exhibition includes a series of photographic works and an
installation. Images used by Cuba’s Ministry of Education distributed
to schools under Castro’s regime to promote Cummunist Revolutionary
ideals are inserted by Hernández into diamond cuts and precious
stones, thus giving multivalent meanings. Diamonds are hard and almost
indestructible stones, just like the ideal of the Communist
Revolution. As symbols of luxury diamonds and precious stones provide
antithetic images with regards to Communism.
The exhibition also
includes “Years,” an installation built up of numbers that go from
1959 to 2008, the years Fidel Castro was in power. The numbers are
made of rusty bars as a symbol of forgotten promises. In collaboration
with Alexander & Bonin (New York), Pepe Cobo (Madrid), and Michael
Wieshofer (Cologne).
opening on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, from 6 pm to 9 pm
Miami Beach Convention Center
799NE 125 st. North Miami, FL 33161 USA
across MoCA