SINCE THURSDAY 19/5
MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
Artist as art. It is the philosophy that runs through the latest exhibition at the MuVIM of Jesus Herrera Martinez, an artist who knows the history of Western art inside out, He has chewed it with admiration and regurgitated it with a contemporary look using technology and an excellent painting technique.. From the reliefs that form the palm of his hand he has extracted, with the help of biometric visual analysis techniques, a topography reminiscent of a mountainous geography on which he places credible landscapes in his paintings. The artist's hand becomes nature. Or use a program that creates artificial faces to transfer them to paint in an installation that reflects the ethnic composition of current Danish society (Herrera has been living in Denmark for six years). Or uses artificial intelligence to age your face and then paints it in oil, beheaded, on a tray, which Holofernes. Part of the screen, but it always ends with material paint, that of the great baroque masters that he admires so much. In cannibal painting Herrera rereads in a Danish key the portraits and still lifes of the Dutch painter Albert Eckhout, who traveled to Brazil in the 17th century to document the “New World”, He plays with the self-portrait and becomes a court painter. At MuVIM you can see the latest sketch of the portrait of Princess Mary of Denmark commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery of Denmark, a square canvas of soft colors and classic composition with nods to the person represented and Denmark, like the shadow of the eucalyptus in allusion to the Australian origin of the princess or the chair on which she sits, designed by the Danish Hans Olsens. An exercise in cannibalism that reinterprets the archetypes of vieja Western painting. S.M.
