FEDERICO HERRERO

The painting Landscape, Canal Grande by Federico Herrero (1978) was inspired by his stay in Venice in 2006. The surface is composed of a mixture of round coloured marks of various dimensions that interweave and superimpose themselves. One can discern vaguely figurative allusions such as the green background in the upper part of the painting which seems to suggest the horizon. For all that, Herrero’s paintings represent mental spaces and according to the artist constitute “landscapes of thoughts of the day that has passed”. As in the case of many other painters, the “classic” form of the painting represents only a tamed minor part of Herrero’s work which includes numerous interventions in public spaces. Thus, ironically and subversively breaking with the seriousness of the painting exhibited in its usual scope, the painter enriches his piece with scribbled caricatures and traces of graffiti that imitate urban depredation. Working intuitively rather than analytically, he captures urban space, painting his “landscapes” outside consecrated territories on various surfaces, sometimes enormous and without limit, flat or angular, whether it is about walls, edges or corners.

Out Of Storage I - Peintures Choisies De La Collection
06/03/2008 – 26/05/2008