NoguerasBlanchard is delighted to announce Rodrigo Hernandez’s exhibition Tan ligero (So light) the artists first solo presentation in Spain, marking the last iteration of Margins of Ten, an exhibition cycle curated by Rosa Lleó in the gallery’s space in Barcelona. Inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’ celebrated film Powers of Ten (1975), it proposes different approaches to the margins of the rational or scientific.
Rodrigo Hernández closes the cycle with something that concerns the laws of physics but that escapes the human, as is the lack of gravity and the idea of floating in the universe. The state of weightlessness is defined as that one in which a body that has a certain weight is counteracted by another force, or remains in free fall without feeling the effects of the atmosphere. It is a state in which physiological functions, such as orientation, are slightly disturbed. The artist transforms the gallery into an infralight space, through a series of new paintings based on the atmosphere conveyed in the novels of the French writer Patrick Modiano, where his characters seem “so distant, so far from everything”.
The painting convention from which Rodrigo Hernández most clearly diverges in this series is that of the “composition”, a concept posited by Leon Battista Alberti. In these paintings, perspective, which usually has the function of unifying the elements in a composition is absent – or at least seems intermittent. On the other hand, the celestial space, in principle lacking resolution, returns to the pictorial context in an indefinable one; it is impossible to know its depth or its dimension. The universe, according to this proposal, is the perfect scenario for an arbitrary pictorial arrangement that replaces compositional clarity with spatial imprecision.
Installation
Roberto Ruiz
Roberto Ruiz
Roberto Ruiz
Roberto Ruiz
Selected Works
Rodrigo Hernández
Tan ligero (Langosta)
2019
Oil on primed mdf
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
Rodrigo Hernández
Tan ligero (Suéter, guante)
2019
Oil on primed mdf
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
Rodrigo Hernández
Tan ligero (Pterosauro)
2019
Oil on primed mdf
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
Rodrigo Hernández
Tan ligero (Cuchara)
2019
Oil on primed mdf
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
Rodrigo Hernández
Tan ligero (Caracol)
2019
Oil on primed mdf
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
Rodrigo Hernández
Tan ligero (Infinito)
2019
Oil on primed mdf
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
Tamara Henderson
Endless
2016
Mixed textiles
388 x 340 cm (152 3⁄4 x 133 7⁄8 inches)
Tamara Henderson
Sewers and the Valley
2016
Mixed textiles
325 x 339 cm (127 15⁄16 x 133 15⁄32 inches)
Tamara Henderson
Capers Weep For the Wine hued Burgundy
2016
Mixed textiles
299 x 340 cm (117 23⁄32 x 133 7⁄8 inches)
Tamara Henderson
Seasons End: Out of Body
2018
16mm colour film with optical soundtrack
25' 30''
Ad Minoliti
Fantasia (35)
2017
Acrylic and marker on paper
50 x 40 cm (19 11⁄16 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Fantasia (28)
2017
Acrylic and marker on paper
50 x 40 cm (19 11⁄16 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Fantasia (27)
2017
Acrylic and marker on paper
50 x 40 cm (19 11⁄16 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Fantasia (33)
2017
Acrylic and marker on paper
50 x 40 cm (19 11⁄16 x 15 3⁄4 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Abstract porn
2011
HD video
1' 19''
Ad Minoliti
Oral sex
2009
Flash animation, loop
7'
Ad Minoliti
Presentación
2015
HD video
2' 45''
Ad Minoliti
GSFC3w
2016
Print on canvas
140 x 100 cm (55 1⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 inches)
Ad Minoliti
GSFC4w
2016
Print on canvas
140 x 100 cm (55 1⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Cyborg mom 4
2018
Print on canvas
80 x 45 cm (31 1⁄2 x 17 23⁄32 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Cyborg mom 1
2018
Print on canvas
80 x 45 cm (31 1⁄2 x 17 23⁄32 inches)
Ad Minoliti
GSFC7w
2016
Print on canvas
140 x 100 cm (55 1⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 inches)
Ad Minoliti
GSFC5w
2016
Print on canvas
140 x 100 cm (55 1⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 inches)
Ad Minoliti
GSFC5w
2016
Print on canvas
140 x 100 cm (55 1⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Cyborg mom 2
2018
Print on canvas
80 x 45 cm (31 1⁄2 x 17 23⁄32 inches)
Ad Minoliti
Cyborg mom 5
2018
Print on canvas
80 x 45 cm (31 1⁄2 x 17 23⁄32 inches)
Belén Zahera
Sin título
2018
Digital print on RC paper (framed)
40 x 49 cm (15 3⁄4 x 19 9⁄32 inches)
Belén Zahera
Martyr #2
2018
Wood engraving, painting
190 x 110 cm (74 13⁄16 x 43 5⁄16 inches)
Belén Zahera
Insideout
2015
HD video
11' 38''
Belén Zahera
Palm reader #1
2017
Brass, methacrylate, wooden pedestals
160 x 20 x 1.6 cm (63 x 7 7⁄8 x 5⁄8 inches)
Belén Zahera
Palm reader #2
2017
Brass, methacrylate, wooden pedestals
160 x 20 x 1.6 cm (63 x 7 7⁄8 x 5⁄8 inches)
Belén Zahera
Glosa #2
2018
Collage (framed). Previous work photos, archive images, old magazines
65 x 50 cm (25 19⁄32 x 19 11⁄16 inches)
Belén Zahera
Glosa #2
2018
Collage (framed). Previous work photos, archive images, old magazines
65 x 50 cm (25 19⁄32 x 19 11⁄16 inches)
Belén Zahera
Surface breeding #2
2018
3D printing on ceramic powder, car paint and painted wood structures
65 x 50 cm (25 19⁄32 x 19 11⁄16 inches)
Belén Zahera
Palm reader #3
2018
Brass, methacrylate, wooden pedestals
160 x 20 x 1.6 cm (63 x 7 7⁄8 x 5⁄8 inches)