Diango Hernández
28 Mar - 25 May 2006
DIANGO HERNÁNDEZ
"Traitors"
Opening: Tuesday March 28th, 2006 at 20.30h with the artist’s presence.
Opening times: Monday to Friday, from 9.30 to 14h. and 17 to 20.30h. Saturdays by appointment.
“Today I am a traitor, tomorrow I will be a hero and the day after, there will not be enough stones for monuments or to be thrown over my body. Who has been the master creator of all this plan? Who has split me into two parts? Who has turned the sea into lava? He is treacherous, his plan is treasonable and so are his accomplices”.
This show explores the political fragility of the concept of Traitor and presents the intellectual as a traitor on principle, an individual committed to a set of personal truths he will not abandon up to their logical conclusions. Confrontation with power will turn us inevitably into political instruments ready to be used and judged, beyond forgiveness there is a higher reward, oblivion.
For his first solo show at Galería Pepe Cobo he presents two installations:
Living room partido (Split Living Room)
A group of furniture belonging to a living room are cut in halves: both halves are supported by electrical cable hanging from the ceiling, between both parts there will be a space the viewer will be able to walk across.
Bebe de mis rosas (Drink from my roses)
An empty writing case and a video projection present “la rosa de la canción protesta” (“the rose in the song protests”) constantly dripping “blood” that is accompanied by a piano musical composition under the installation same title composed by the Cuban author Ernesto Lecuona. On top of the writing case, a note: “we produce more roses than traitors”.
Diango Hernández (Cuba, 1970) lives and works between Düsseldorf (Germany), Trento (Italy) and La Habana (Cuba). Among his recent shows we can highlight Revolution at the Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland) and his participation at the Venice Biennale 51st edition in 2005. His next shows in 2006 include Spies at Alexander and Bonin, New York, the Sydney Biennial and the Sao Paulo Biennial.
© Diango Hernández
Bebe de mis rosas, 2006
Instalación
Dimensiones variables
"Traitors"
Opening: Tuesday March 28th, 2006 at 20.30h with the artist’s presence.
Opening times: Monday to Friday, from 9.30 to 14h. and 17 to 20.30h. Saturdays by appointment.
“Today I am a traitor, tomorrow I will be a hero and the day after, there will not be enough stones for monuments or to be thrown over my body. Who has been the master creator of all this plan? Who has split me into two parts? Who has turned the sea into lava? He is treacherous, his plan is treasonable and so are his accomplices”.
This show explores the political fragility of the concept of Traitor and presents the intellectual as a traitor on principle, an individual committed to a set of personal truths he will not abandon up to their logical conclusions. Confrontation with power will turn us inevitably into political instruments ready to be used and judged, beyond forgiveness there is a higher reward, oblivion.
For his first solo show at Galería Pepe Cobo he presents two installations:
Living room partido (Split Living Room)
A group of furniture belonging to a living room are cut in halves: both halves are supported by electrical cable hanging from the ceiling, between both parts there will be a space the viewer will be able to walk across.
Bebe de mis rosas (Drink from my roses)
An empty writing case and a video projection present “la rosa de la canción protesta” (“the rose in the song protests”) constantly dripping “blood” that is accompanied by a piano musical composition under the installation same title composed by the Cuban author Ernesto Lecuona. On top of the writing case, a note: “we produce more roses than traitors”.
Diango Hernández (Cuba, 1970) lives and works between Düsseldorf (Germany), Trento (Italy) and La Habana (Cuba). Among his recent shows we can highlight Revolution at the Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland) and his participation at the Venice Biennale 51st edition in 2005. His next shows in 2006 include Spies at Alexander and Bonin, New York, the Sydney Biennial and the Sao Paulo Biennial.
© Diango Hernández
Bebe de mis rosas, 2006
Instalación
Dimensiones variables