Diango Hernández

OßO is a meditation on beauty that seduces us or, in the words of the artist himself: everything is the same and at the same time something else, beauty continues to be something that fascinates and interests me. Attracted by the lights we arrive at unknown places. Arriving is what we want but definitely: the fun is the trip, the slower you travel the more you see.

Printed be Elena Alonso.

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The collaboration between Benveniste Contemporary and Diango Hernández began in 2008 with a unique piece entitled En mi Isla, our workshop’s largest single-plate etching produced at the time of its conception. This work addresses a fundamental aspect in the romantic submission of the self: the propagandistic manipulation of the homeland as a lost paradise created by heroes that we will never be able to emulate. Here, the view of Che's eye (enlargement made from the emblematic photograph taken by Korda in 1960) is transformed into a double image with multiple readings, which in the end do not cease to refer to the hero as a colossus that demand total renunciation and sacrifice for love of country.

Printed by Dan Benveniste.
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Konto Seite is one of the most hermetic works by Diango Hernández. At first glance, the viewer simply perceives 12 entry pages of a German accounting book in which the red columns that make up the debit sections gradually move across the surface of each print with the same movement experienced by a minute hand over a period of 5 minutes. In this extremely subtle piece Diango Hernández speaks to us about the brief space of autonomy and of what free will remains for the individual when one finds oneself locked into a context of control and uniformity

Printed by Elena Alonso and Juan Cruz Ibañez.
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These 2 publications were produced for the artists’ solo show in 2013 titled The New Man and The New Woman at the Marlborough Contemporary gallery in London, an ehibition based on his childhood experiences in Cuba.

Printed by Dan Benveniste.