Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera

Exposición: Mar 9 – Abr 16, 2000


Durante su residencia en Artpace, Arturo Herrera produjo múltiples cuerpos de trabajo que incluyen esculturas, pinturas, grabados, obras en papel e instalaciones arquitectónicas. Las obras continúan las investigaciones de contenido y forma de Herrera, trabajando con imágenes fragmentadas de la cultura popular.

En sus nuevas pinturas sobre paneles, las líneas grabadas se abren paso a través de las superficies de madera. Pintado de un color rico, el trazo lineal invita a la interpretación: ¿es la marca de un mapa, el contorno de un cuerpo o una forma de la naturaleza? En otra serie de pinturas sobre tabla, Herrera da forma a la madera en abstracciones curvas, que sugieren fragmentos de cosas o espacio. La superficie de estas obras, acabada con precisión en colores sólidos, parece fabricada, pero las formas ambiguas —ni industriales ni naturales— sugieren en última instancia lo cultural.

En otra serie, esculturas de metal de pequeña escala descansan en el suelo. Una vez más, una línea reductora es la fuente. Adornadas con una pintura de colores brillantes, las esculturas fundamentadas son divertidas y ambiguamente sexuales.

Trabajando con Hare and Hound Press en San Antonio, Herrera ha producido dos ediciones de grabados y fotograbados. Estos trabajos en papel extraen y reorganizan líneas de fuentes populares con el ritmo entrecortado de los dibujos animados. Los estampados en relieve contienen un espacio negativo de líneas blancas sobre un primer plano azul celeste suave, que evoca recuerdos de la infancia en una composición densa y urbana. Los fotograbados de Herrera son reduccionistas y minimalistas, y contienen gráficas líneas negras sobre una superficie blanca nítida.

La obra de Herrera, jugando un acto de equilibrio entre la abstracción y la representación, cambia de escala, experimenta con la forma y, en última instancia, se abre de par en par al espectador. “Las nuevas obras investigan una variedad de impactos psicológicos”, comenta el artista. “La eficacia de las formas fragmentadas provoca varios niveles de resonancia corporal e intelectual. Me interesa el efecto de las lecturas asociativas y no lineales en el espectador y el potencial del espacio pintado para ser un receptáculo íntimo para la imaginación y una experiencia estética ”.

Artista

Arturo Herrera

New York, New York, USA

Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Arturo Herrera´s multilayered body of work includes collages, painted wood sculptures, photographs, cut felt pieces and wall works. Using a fragmented language – whose lingering references range from popular culture to art history – to decontextualize inherent narratives without eradicating the coded referentiality of the image. The resulting works shift in between the explicit and the implicit. A pliability of meaning is played out trough the ambiguity of figurative and abstract forms. These forms do not enforce a specific message. Instead, they address the fragmentation and recomposition of mass-cultural elements to explore the impact of the adultered language of abstraction into the collective gaze.
Herrera’s site specific installations in 2017 can be found at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni / OGR in Turin; Bloomberg European Headquarters in London; and at the West Elm building at 8366 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles in conjunction with the exhibition How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney organized by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. In 2016, Tate Modern commissioned Herrera to create a long-term wall painting for the sixth-floor restaurant.
Herrera’s solo and project-based exhibitions have been held at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Aldridge Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; daadgalerie, Berlin; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Dia Center for the Arts, NY; Art Gallery of Ontario; ICA Philadelphia; The UCLA Hammer Museum, MoMA, NY; and The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the DAAD, Berlin.

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