‘The year of bat’

Aurora Vigil-Escalera Art Gallery presents, from April 30 to June 8, The Year of the Bat, the first monographic exhibition by Jorge Hernández in our gallery.

Current debates on art tend to develop under a fairly simple argumentative scheme: creation, in line with the radical transformation of society, has to leave behind its traditional means and orient itself towards a permanently innovative attitude. An argument that, of course, Jorge Hernández does not share: for him, even from a post-cinema language, painting continues to be an ideal territory to pose conflicts and crossroads, which are resolved through the variability of expressive resources, compositional disposition and constant chromatic exploration.

His struggle is situated in the traditional support-frame, where he questions ways of looking at and constructing reality that delve into the fiction of possible worlds. To do so, he turns to the film strategies of the fifties and sixties, specifically those of that Hollywood mediated by the repercussions of the Cold War, but which also established new narrative paradigms that transformed the history of cinema. His objective also points towards film noir and neighbouring genres, where the enigma always structures the narrative.