ARTIST RODRIGO HERNANDEZ
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Rodrigo Hernández’s upcoming exhibition at Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
El espejo ( The Mirror)
Curated by Marielsa Castro Vizcarra
El espejo (The Mirror) presents a complex spatial situation in which a group of recently produced sculptures, produced by Rodrigo Hernández during a research and production residency at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), interact within a space covered by an immersive mural painting. This installation will conjure the encounter between two real-life figures—Verner Panton and Antonio Grass, suggesting a scene that blurs the limits between the pictorial and the sculptural, between fiction and reality. The exhibition becomes, therefore, a situation that juxtaposes in a real area different spaces or places that are essentially incompatible; the result is a metaphor that proposes similarity or closeness between different objects and thus, has the capacity to reveal what is common between them.
The work of Hernández (b. 1983, Mexico City) is influenced by diverse vocabularies from visual culture, based on aesthetic references from multiple historical periods, from Meso-American iconography to contemporary art and creative fields like Japanese printmaking. Through traditional techniques like drawing, sculpture and painting, he explores the way images are created and generates a singular language in which abstraction and figuration coexist.
The artist lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2014) and obtained a BA at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe in 2013.
Rodrigo Hernández, Installation view of El espejo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, 2022; Photo by Museo de Arte Moderno de Mendellín; Courtesy of the Artist; ChertLüdde, Berlin; Madragoa, Lisboa and P420, Bologna
