Invasi

curated by Bruno Corà

This internationally oriented event, which highlights the circularity within Herrero’s artistic practice, offers an overview of the artist’s current pictorial–plastic research. In 2010, in Havana, with the exhibition Osservatorio, Herrero dedicated a substantial body of work to celebrating the 500th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s invention of the telescope. On that occasion, under the concept of observation, he conceived and produced a complex group of paintings and sculptural works that visualized natural phenomena, scientific concepts, and poetic–imaginary dimensions, revealing—through their imaginative and visionary power—significant connections between art and science.
In Italy, his paintings and sculptures had already been admired in various exhibitions in private galleries and public institutions, works in which the animal world spilled into the human, evoking those ambiguities of anthropo-zoomorphic boundaries that have often characterized Latin American literature, from Borges to Cortázar.
With this new exhibition—featuring fifteen large canvases and five marble sculptures—Herrero’s artistic path appears differently narrative, not devoid of powerful metaphors that allow reflections on contemporary reality to emerge. The large seascapes, landscapes, and skies painted in oil, displayed alongside the five calacatta oro marble sculptures crafted in Carrara and titled Communicating Vessels, evoke surprising revelations through the analogies one can draw with history and with the daily conflicts of the individual.
Once again, Herrero confirms both his poetic depth and his ability to infuse his work with an epic and critical quality, making him an artist driven by an impetus that is at once ethical and aesthetic.