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Front $5,000 |
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Arturo Herrera
Artist Arturo Herrera, Venezuelan-born and based in New York and Berlin, combines Modernist abstraction and images taken from popular culture in a practice that includes collage, wall paintings, felt sculptures, cut-outs and photography. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the Hammer Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., the Centre d’Art Contemporarain, Geneva, the Istambul Biennial, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago, Spain.
Cyanotype, a photographic printmaking process first invented in 1841 and commonly used for architectural blueprint drawings, appealed to Herrera for this experimental print, Front. He snapped 35mm photos of some of his existing works, and manipulated the film by pouring coffee and other liquids on it and placing it in the freezer; the results are enigmatic, accidental versions of his work in soulful deep blue tones.
In Fetch, Herrera painted acid directly on copper plates, in a technique called spit-bite, to create a suite of six etchings. The sensual and spare images are uniquely gestural yet playful, evocative, enigmatic and suggestive. Fully in the spirit of the artist’s work, they call upon memory and the unconscious for meaning.
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