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That Very Day series
- Relief prints
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26.375 x 20 in
(66.99 x 50.8 cm)
- Arturo Herrera
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Sold
- Edition. Printer's Proof: Suite of 5 Prints (From the edition of: 1 BAT, 3 APs, 2 PPs, 1 HC, and edition of 10 suites of 5 prints)
Gift of Janet Lennie Flohr
Estimate $7,000 - $8,000
While in residency at Artpace San Antonio, Arturo Herrera produced That Very Day, a series of prints that extract and rearrange lines from popular sources with the staccato rhythm of animated cartoons. The relief prints contain negative space of white lines on a soft, baby blue foreground, evoking childhood memories in a dense, urban composition. Herrera’s work, playing a balancing act between abstraction and representation, shifts scale, experiments with form, and ultimately leaves itself wide open to the viewer.
- Created: c. 2000
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Artist: Arturo Herrera
Arturo Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, and lives and works in New York and Berlin, Germany. He received a BA from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Arturo Herrera´s multilayered body of work includes collages, painted wood sculptures, photographs, cut felt pieces and wall works. Using a fragmented language – whose lingering references range from popular culture to art history – to decontextualize inherent narratives without eradicating the coded referentiality of the image. The resulting works shift in between the explicit and the implicit. A pliability of meaning is played out trough the ambiguity of figurative and abstract forms. These forms do not enforce a specific message. Instead, they address the fragmentation and recomposition of mass-cultural elements to explore the impact of the adultered language of abstraction into the collective gaze.
Herrera has received many awards including, among others, a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship. He has had solo exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; among others. His work appeared in the Whitney Biennial (2002).