Desideri di Luce. Rifrazioni

On Thursday, April 4th, starting at 6:00 pm, the solo exhibition of Cuban artist Diango Hernández will be inaugurated at the Galleria della Fondazione Culturale San Fedele. In collaboration with WIZARD GALLERY.

The exhibition unfolds as a singular installation with its guiding thread being light. The works - 10 Siren Songs, 5 All Hands, some paintings on refraction, 3 sculptures, some Polaroids and a 16th century crucifix - follow a narrative logic that relates light and desire. Thus, the sequence All Hands - which presents portrayed hands searching for light - has a wooden crucifix as its focal point, signifying that human existence must be interpreted in the light of transcendence, of an absolute. In this case, of a man who is "the light of the world."

At the heart of the exhibition project, some oil paintings reveal luminous spaces filtered as if through windows with translucent and corrugated glass, whose frames take the form of a cross. Although we do not see precisely those places that appear blurred and distant, we perceive the calm peace of a beyond, as if we were standing before the diaphragm of the undulating movement of a threshold to be crossed, of a watery veil to be traversed while we immerse ourselves in that light.

Thus, at the entrance to the Gallery, the presence of a sculpture alludes to a tree behind which is placed a backdrop of four large abstract canvases in shades of green and blue, recalling the fluidity of the wonderful marine depths (the artist is famous for his research on Olaism, the language of the sea), but also the spaces of a luminous garden whose tree branches are caressed by the wind.

If we follow the biblical symbolism of the heavenly Jerusalem, this sculpture may allude to the tree of life that expresses the deepest desires inscribed in the human being to be fruitful, to heal physical and moral illnesses, to put an end to the experience of pain.

The exhibition continues with a small space entirely covered by some Siren Song canvases, painted in bright red tones: here, we are invited to experience the immersive sensation of a suggestive "chromatic chapel". Finally, the exhibition is completed by a painting on the theme of the "threshold" placed in the San Fedele Museum and created especially for the occasion.