This is the first solo exhibition of the artist in the city, titled ?? fear no evil “ Photo: File
España.- the “disturbing” pieces of Venezuelan Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez took the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (Spain), in the first monographic exhibition of the artist in the city, entitled “fear no evil” and for who has rebuilt his first experimental video works.
These works, articulated around death, consciousness and resurrection, are put into dialogue with a new project, created especially for this exhibition, “Filament” which, according to its author, “must be understood as a conceptual eco”.
However, what occupies the central space is “Saint Guinefort” a provocative installation whose protagonist is a stuffed dog that lies in a transparent case as an incubator.
This is a work of 1991, based on the legend of Saint Guinefort, in the French region of Dombes, who have long worshiped a greyhound, whose master killed believing he had killed her son.
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