FEDERICO HERRERO EXHIBITION AT LUISA STRINA AND SAO PAULO SOCIAL ART REPORT

exhibition views



Cildo Meireles


Cildo Meireles and Federico Herrero


Carla Zaccagnini and Ivo Mesquita


Pedrosa, Runo Lagomarsino and Zaccagnini


Zaccagnini (omnipresent ) and Jorge Macchi
(Lagomarsino and Pedrosa in the background)


Rodrigo Moura admiring a painting while speaking on the cellphone


Federico Herrero and Rick Castro


Bernardo Mosqueira and Guilhermo Altmayer


Cassia Tabatini and Melissa Sguarizi


Vinicius Manoel and Ilan Wainstein


Carla Zaccagnini


LETRAS Y NÚMEROS
a Project by FEDERICO HERRERO
Galeria Luisa Strina
August, 10th to September, 10th, 2011.

Federico Herrero exhibits a series of never seen before(!) paintings, produced between Costa Rica and São Paulo. The title of the exhibition refers to the energy (of shapes and colors) and to the field of action of painting. Making use of the abstraction as platform and the canvas as space, the artist deconstructs a landscape where the resonance of the shapes leads us to a contemplative assimilation of his work. Some of these paintings carry scraps of paint from former works, patches left on the floor of his studio that act as diaries of his production and speak about the craft of painting. This resonance process occurs as well when some of the paintings, produced under control, try to limit the language and the choreography of the forms created by their residues, which precisely represent an open structure due to their random configuration.

"Over the last decade, the Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero has emerged as one of the most important figures in the field of visual art in Central America. Typically working in the medium of painting, his artistic practice is hugely influenced by the politics, cultural traditions, and natural splendor of his home country. Herrero translates the mix of colors, shapes, and forms of the streets of San José and the abundant tropical landscape that surround the city, onto gallery walls or canvases. His works are best described as a brisk and intense play between geometric and organic forms, from which he creates nonrepresentational narratives that are caught in the gap between figuration and abstraction."
Jens Hoffmann, text to the Passengers show, 2008. Wattis, San Francisco.


Galeria Luisa Strina
Rua Padre João Manuel 755 - loja 02, Cerqueira César
São Paulo, Brasil
http://www.galerialuisastrina.com.br