Diango Herna ndez Livres

“The Cuba in my art is an invention …” … Diango Hernández (b. Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1970; lives and works in Düsseldorf) says about the genesis of his works, which reflect his childhood and youth in socialist Cuba as well as his experience as a migrant. The book Theoretical Beach combines conceptual considerations with tropical sensuality; their union is the creative matrix for the artist’s work in a variety of media (sculpture, installation, mural, painting, and drawing), which intertwines an exploration of personal experiences and larger questions of memory, the search for an identity, longing, translation, and what it means to leave one place and arrive in another with critical reflections on the history of art. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, Theoretical Beach documents four of his most recent exhibitions in 2015–2016 (Kunsthalle Münster; MOSTYN, Wales; K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen). The respective curators, Marcus Lütkemeyer, Alfredo Cramerotti, Susanne Meyer-Büser, and Stefanie Kreuzer, as well as Timotheus Vermeulen have contributed essays analyzing the artist’s work; a text by Diango Hernández himself and a preface by Markus Heinzelmann round out the volume.

Tiré du site Internet de Revolver: "In 2003 the Cuban artist Diango Hernández made www.themuseumofcapitalism.com a website that named Google (the most used web engine in the web) as the museum of capitalism itself. Now the artist is presenting in this book his search in "The Museum of Capitalism" about freedom, the result is a big mass of incomplete information an astonishing variety of possible freedoms. "The Web links about freedom are almost endless but you can't click them anymore because in this book they are printed words, what we can do is to imagine what it would be in the next page if we would click on them, the same thing that has to do someone that still doesn't know what it is Internet and still is not free." (Diango Hernández)."