Juan Hernandez I’VE CLOSED MY EYES TO SEE. The title under which I bring together the paintings of this exhibition is a short text (even not minor) by the spanish poet Angel Guinda. Throughout history, there have been many writers who have elaborated especially attractive images around such a suggestive theme. Close your eyes and see. (Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824) ... when I closed my eyes to see her better. (MA de Lamartine, 1790-1869) To see well, one has to close one´s eyes. ( Ramon Rodriguez Correa, 1835-1894) I´ve closed my eyes to see. (Angel Guinda 1948) THE LOOK a new variation my old friend Agustín sends me. THE LOOK What will this woman who we see here without looking at us be thinking? Doesn’t she know we’re staring at watching her? Or, maybe, is that it what she doesn’t want to see? I’ve gazed intently into her eyes to see if they show what they’ll be watching with a such obvious lack of interest. And I’ve seen, that like that, opened, don’t look at anything As they’re just staring at something That only closing them, she’ll they’ll be able to see. Agustín Porras, 1958 I’VE CLOSED MY EYES TO SEE. Angel Guinda, 1948 Never ending, a whirl of images overcome my mind, I’m plagued by them from the newspapers and magazines pages, billboards, shows, buildings, means of transport and TV programmes… All of them are the reflection of an omnipresent, although undervalued popular culture, which I claim since I think each of these expressions are essential pieces inside the complex structure which we call reality. In this way, I understand the term pop can be a label which suits my whole work properly, and any generous comments which people would do to my work would be welcome. Film stars, catwalk models, musicians or top-class sportsman/woman are usually my targets, but also secondary people from the public sphere, or friends or members of my family (especially Ana and Adrian). The clear and well-shaped line is enough when we share some images which hold an attraction for all, as the iron fells attracted by the magnet. I’VE CLOSED MY EYES TO SEE it shows my admiration for the feminine world in general as a wide representation of our human nature, attractive and complicated as few. An inner, deep, absent and concentrated look, which would be able to reflect our own ego, which makes us deepen in the work and may cause a disturbing feeling, an uneasiness, but at the same time it helps us as a daydreaming and causes us to the observation as an exercise which leads to different interpretations. This time I leave the canvas and choose the wood that with its streaks emulate, without much difficulty, the character’s people’s skin texture which interests me. I take back, with the crayons the passion I lived with them during my childhood, sharing its simple role with the intensity the acrylic gives them, without forgetting other options such as work in pastels, the charcoal or the collage. I also show two animations in this exhibition which reproduce a dynamic and expansive aspect of life (the girl dancing) and a quiet and intimist scene (the reader smoking). Made by hand still after still, these hundreds of drawings allow me to share the latest computer technique with the handcrafted procedures needed at the end of the XIX century to create certain optical toys. Butterflies, birds, flowers. Any image fits in the task I have set myself: to bring closer to others the handful of emotions which they (and many others) continually aroused in me. Drawing is such a fundamental task in my life as the instinct to cover the most elemental necessities. I’d like my works cause, to whom come to look at them, similar emotions to the ones I’ve lived when working on them. Juan Hernández
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:13:50 +0000
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