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Painter and sculptor
Vicente Hernandez Hernandez
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About
Artist statement
El hombre que hace arte tiene la importante mision de plasmar la forma de su mundo, tanto agradable como despreciada, con el fin de proponer nuevas lineas y soluciones: la realidad siempre me ha impactado, la realidad es duramente humana. Por todos sus puntos cardinales mi arte refleja, desde una optica optimista y coloquial, al ser humano y su entorno, ya parezca absurdo, surrealista o magico. Desde mi raiz primigenia: Batabano, ese pequeno pueblo del sur de la capital habanera, por donde penetran casi puntualmente los huracanes, hago emerger mi genesis junto a eventos universales, tanto fisicos, como de la historia del arte: desde nuestra Habana fisica y cultural, hasta lo mas recondito en espacio y tiempo de la cultura universal. Eventos todos que a fin de cuentas, son tambien nuestros, citas imprescindibles. Asi que todo aquello que se mueve alrededor, ya sea por mar, aire o tierra tiene espacio en mi quehacer creativo. Me dejo llevar por un hecho local o foraneo que toca la vida de la gente, o en ocasiones pinto, por ejemplo, como lo hariamos para salir de aqui o para escapar del ciclon que viene, con los recursos y el conocimiento que se dispone, como seria su Torre de Babel o su Arca de Noe, su dirigible de palo inflado o en un gran pez. Siempre la obra debe encerrar un entusiasmo particular, una idea en si, nunca preconcibo, ni boceto. Solo me hago un prontuario de ideas o frases que encuentro a cada instante, una nueva motivacion. Tener conciencia de los eventos y del compromiso con el tiempo que vives, es mi meta.
Every person who creates art has the important mission of giving shape to his or her world, the pleasant and the despicable, in order to suggest new lines and solutions: reality has always impacted me, reality is aggressively human. From all different angles, my works depict, from a colloquial and optimistic viewpoint, human beings and their environment, whether it may seem absurd, surrealist, or magical. From my ancestral roots in Batabano, my hometown in the southern region of Havana City where hurricanes consistently enter the island, my genesis emerges together with universal events, either physical or related to the history of art: from our physical and cultural Havana to the farthest places in space and time of universal culture. Events that, after all, are also ours, essential references. So anything that moves around by air, land, or sea finds its place in my creative work. I let myself be carried away by a local or international event that touches people's lives or sometimes I paint, for example, what people would do to leave from here or to escape from an approaching hurricane, with the resources and know-how they have, as if they lived in the Tower of Babel or in Noah's Ark, or if they used an inflatable aircraft or a big fish. Each of my works must always possess a particular enthusiasm, an idea per se. I never have a preconceived idea and I never sketch before. I make an outline with ideas and phrases that I find every moment, a new motivation. My goal is to be aware of events and of the commitment with the times we live in.
Summary CV
November 9, 1971. Vicente Hernandez Hernandez was born in Batabano, a coastal town south of La Habana, Cuba. He studied at junior high school and at the Provincial Vocational School of Art, specializing in Plastic Arts. He later obtained his Bachelor Degree in Fine Art Education with Golden Title in 1994.
He has participated in more than 150 group exhibitions and more than 15 solo shows in Cuba, the United States, Venezuela, Germany, The Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Spain, along with major fairs in Chicago, Buenos Aires, New York, Texas, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New Mexico, San Juan, Charlotte, and Miami.
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