Jorge Hernández (Huelva, 1973)
Hernández’s paintings portray iconic scenes inspired by pop art and classic Hollywood. Characters in 60s, 70s and 80s fashion populate vast landscapes and modern architectures wrapped in an air of mystery reminiscent of cinema noir and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick. Through his talent for confronting decontextualized elements within his acrylic paintings with the use of established storytelling conventions and his sense of composition, strongly marked by a narrative purpose, his paintings come alive in the audience’s imagination. The use of a glossy resin to cover the artwork gives the final painting a timeless and almost dreamlike appearance, that furthers its connection to the silver screen.
At the same time, he has developed the “Reallity glasses” series, in which he gives center stage to his pigments and resins, and the effects he can achieve with them. With a monochrome background and a single of his recognizable figures floating in the center like a diver, often accompanied by the usual equipment for that activity, such as fins, but, in the author’s usual game of contrasts and similarities, we soon realize that the goggles that accompany them are actually virtual reality glasses. Now he introduces for the first time a fusion between both lines, with his “online divers” in recognizable elements of the artist’s production, such as vast landscapes, snowy mountains or vintage cars.
Hernández has taken part in frequent exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, San Sebastián… and outside of Spain in Switzerland, Belgium, England, London, Portugal, France and Brussels among others. It has also been present at fairs such as Summa Art Fair, ARCO, Just Mad, ForoSur Cáceres and the Lisbon Art Fair.
Lastly, Jorge Hernández has numerous awards and scholarships to his credit, among them the Vázquez Díaz Scholarship that was awarded to him by the Huelva Provincial Council in 2012, the Honorable Mention of the Ramón Portillo International Painting Contest in Motril in 2015, the First Prize in the International Painting Competition of Fuente de Álamao in 2015 or the First Prize in the LIX National Painting Hall of the City of Ayamonte in 2016.
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