Diango Hernández, spoke with La Sindical about the strength of symbolic elements in his works and his most recent art piece "Thoughts on Havana" included in the group exhibition "Havana: images of five centuries "curated by the National Museum of Fine Arts.
Esta es tu última exposición del año... ¿consideras que es un buen cierre? “Es un cierre buenísimo. El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes siempre ha tenido para mí un significado muy especial. Es una especie de templo en el que la condición de Isla no existe”.
Pensamientos en La Habana" es una cortina, es un mar vertical y sin horizontes, un mar que se puede atravesar como puerta, es también una puesta del sol y a su vez un amanecer. En el poema las palabras 'vuelan' en forma de pensamientos sobre la ciudad, el viento las impulsa.
07.06 – 03.08.2019 Opening: Friday, 07 June 2019, 6-9pm Galerie Barbara Thumm Markgrafenstrasse 68 D-10969 Berlin Phone + 49/30/283 903 47 Fax + 49/30/283 903 48 info(at)bthumm.de Open hours Tuesday–Friday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Saturday 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Ahí estaba él sentado de espaldas a todo y de frente al azul que se divide en dos, casi el mismo azul, casi la misma cosa, solo que un azul es de aires y motas de algodón y el otro de peces y sueños. ¿En qué pensaba el Salvavidas? Todas esas horas de penitencia le han servido para aprender a esperar, para extender su paciencia. A veces cuenta las olas, a veces ...
Cascadas is Hernández first solo exhibition at Casado Santapau. This new exhibition is based on two new bodies of works; in which Hernández explores new strategies of transformation of Cuba’s recent history. In Cascadas Hernández’s country history appears as something unreadable therefore more open and universal.
The pompous villager thinks his hometown is the whole world. As long as he can stay on as mayor, humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, and watch his nest egg grow in its strongbox, he believes the universe is in good order.
During these harsh winter days, nothing is more distant from Düsseldorf than sun, sand and sea. Visitors should consider this before entering Diango Hernández’s exhibition, ‘Amor Amor’, since, like the majority of the artist’s repertoire, it deals primarily with a longing for his Cuban homeland. Fittingly, the show’s inventory consists of tropical emblems: ...
In his exhibition ERAS IMAGINARIAS at the Galerie Barbara Thumm, featuring works from 2015 to 2018, Diango Hernández dedicates himself to the dynamic power of the imagination that is inextricably linked to the perception of recorded events...