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= Arturo Herrera = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Arturo Herrera (born 1959) is a Venezuelan visual artist who exhibits internationally, known for his melding of cartoons and collage. Born and raised in Venezuela, Herrera briefly lived in Oklahoma and Chicago where he pursued his education in art. He has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dia Center For The Arts, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Whitney Museum of American Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.[citation needed] After living in New York and building an international reputation, he moved to Berlin in 2003 for a residency through the German Academic Exchange Service and has remained in Germany since.

Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, felt sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction. He especially favors screen printing, which he compares to drawing for its spontaneity and openness to variation between prints. Frequently reworking discarded material, such as books or comics, Herrera takes pride in giving the artifacts a new and "different" life in which they "can go on."

Within his artwork, Herrera plays with concepts of ambiguity, abstraction, and the "recognition of subconscious images." He creates lasting images with strange depictions by omitting and reconfiguring different existing pictures from magazines, comics, children's books, and other forms of media. His goal in his art is to undermine the images and representation portrayed by media, such as Disney, bringing forth depictions that are usually left to the background and left unseen. In an interview with Josiah McElheny, Herrera revealed that he enjoys using minimalist concepts and art practices in order to form a maximalist and conceptually interesting piece. Preferring interpretation over strict meaning, Herrera follows a modernist art style that leaves interpretation up to the critic as opposed to forcing a meaning out of his works.

Contents

 * 1Selected works
 * 2Selected exhibitions
 * 3Important collections
 * 4Notes and references
 * 5External links

Selected works[edit source]

 * All I Ask (1999)
 * For the First Time (1999)
 * Seven (2000)
 * A Knock (2002)
 * Night Before Last (2003)
 * Keep in Touch (2004)
 * Berlin Singers (2010)
 * Giuseppe, Richard, and Johannes (2012)
 * Books (2012)

Selected exhibitions[edit source]

 * 1998: "Arturo Herrera" The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL., Jan. 11 – Feb. 22.
 * 1999: "Color Me Blind! Malerei in Zeiten von Computergame und Comic", Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany. Nov. 13,

1999-Jan. 16, 2000.


 * 2000: Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY. Feb. 27 - May. 16.
 * 2001: Painting at the Edge of the World, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Feb. 10 – May. 6.
 * 2002: Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. Jan. 17 – Mar. 3.
 * 2003: The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy. Apr. 16 – Aug. 3.
 * 2004: Funny Cuts: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössische Kunts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. Dec. 4, 2004–Apr. 17, 2005.
 * 2005: "Arturo Herrera" Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Apr. 7 – June 19.
 * 2006: Big Juicy Paintings (And More): Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL. Jun. 16 – Sep. 17.
 * 2007: "Comic-Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Mar. 4 – June 11.
 * 2008: "La invención de lo cotidiano", Acervos del Museo Nacional de Arte y de La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. Nov. 27 – Mar. 11.
 * 2009: Arturo Herrera - Ruinas Circulares / Circular Ruins, Fundación D.O.P. & Fundación Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela, Jun. 19 - Sep. 30.
 * 2010: Arturo Herrera - Home, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
 * 2011: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding), Americas Society, New York; Feb. 3 - Apr. 30.
 * 2012: "Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012", Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Aug. 20, 2012 – Jan. 6, 2013.
 * 2013: "Parallel Worlds, Independent Creations" – Contemporary Art, Fundación D.O.P, Caracas, Venezuela, Sep. 22. - Dic. 8.
 * 2014: Minimal Baroque: Post-Minimalism and Contemporary Art, Rønnebæksholm, Naestved, Denmark, Apr. 6 – Jun. 15.

Important collections[edit source]
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Fundación D.O.P., Madrid, Spain.

Tate Britain, London (England), United Kingdom.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Colección D.O.P., Paris, France.

Louis Vuitton Foundation, Hong Kong, China.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), Caracas, Venezuela

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

UBS AG Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, U.S.A.

ARCO Foundation Collection, Madrid, Spain

Notes and references[edit source]

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Arturo Herrera - Ruinas Circulares / Circular Ruins, page 7, ISBN 978-980-6416-27-7

External links[edit source]

 * Herrera at the Museum of Modern Art
 * Herrera at Art 21
 * https://arturoherrera.org/