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”.
FIRST — IF YOU ARE IN LOVE — THAT’S A GOOD THING — THAT’S ABOUT THE BEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE. DON’T LET ANYONE MAKE IT SMALL OR LIGHT TO YOU...
One of my most recent problems has been how to transform the art-space into a positive space. This is what I call a challenging task because its starting point is the assumption that makes the art-space a negative space or better to say a non-positive space. I am still working on this one nevertheless I have found at the end of Concierto Barroco (by Alejo ...
Living abroad is a very particular experience, something that certainly has many degrees of complications. In which distance plays a very important role, this distance can be physical and/or cultural as well.The more distant you are the more attracted you become to this original source of energy that is the place in which we were born...
Yes, I am Cuban by birth and I feel Cuban, what means that I am emotionally tied to all I saw and felt in the island. This is something tremendously immense that would be absurd to deny...
I am now just a visitor, a random viewer and what I see has the power of reminding me of something, maybe a place. I cannot precisely tell you what or where it is, but what I can tell you is that I would love to be there and not here...
Maybe the best way to understand “Eugene” is to see a heart in motion, the heart contracts (systole) and relaxes (diastole). One complete sequence is called a heartbeat. The exhibition “Eugene” as a heartbeat, is a model of motion that interest me deeply. There is not only distance between departure and arrival, there is emotional displacement...
By now my imagination of Cuba is certainly larger and richer that my actual memories of it. Cuba in my work is a fabrication, a 'poetic truth.' I wouldn't say that any of this has anything to do with national identity in itself but rather with fictional realities...
Gerhard Obermüller: In your art you often confront us with historical upheavals. These upheavals are omnipresent and leave behind traces even after events seemed to have passed over them. For you these traces specifically include processes of memory, overwriting, but also official omissions in the process of memory. Socialist Nature here in Linz is your latest ...