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Arturo Herrera

The Hill is Part of Night

1995

Technical data

Authorship:

Arturo Herrera

Title:

The Hill is Part of Night

Date:

1995

Dimensions:

198 x 226 cm

Collection it belongs to:

Collection Michael Jenkins-Javier Romero

Inventory no.:

MJJR141

Artwork text

Based in Berlin, Arturo Herrera uses image fragmentation strategies appropriated from popular culture and animation to create a multidisciplinary body of work that encompasses painting, collage, sculpture, multiples, graphic work, photography, and mural painting. Although starting from figurative images, his different series of works are stylistically situated in a borderline territory between abstraction and figuration. Herrera borrows and manipulates iconic and familiar images from books and the world of animation, to confront imagery coming from the popular with the formal languages of the modern pictorial tradition, and in particular with that of abstraction, and to investigate opposing concepts such as the solemn and the playful.

Exhibitions

"Moving forward, Looking back" [Avanzando, mirando atrás]. Alicante, MACA, from June 16 to September 24, 2023.

Artist

Arturo Herrera

Caracas, Venezuela , 1959

The Venezuelan artist based in Berlin Arturo Herrera uses image fragmentation strategies appropriated from popular culture and animation to create a multidisciplinary body of work that encompasses painting, collage, sculpture, multiples, graphic work...

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