The Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery is presenting the first one-day show of works by Secundino Hernández. The reconstruction of the artist’s studio work, the interplay of glances produced there, the artist face to face with his work, the idea, image and scenographic representation of his figure, of his self-portrait and his portrait, constitute the mains pillars on which this metapictorial discourse is constructed.
Subverting the classic standards, both in terms of time and commerce, of what is most common in a gallery exhibition, this show lasting just one day and without any pieces on sale is more of a mobilisation, a theatrical and spontaneous act, than a stereotypical exhibition of an artist’s works. On this occasion, a new self-portrait, a photographic portrait made of Secundino Hernández by the artists Clegg & Guttmann, the painting which appears in the background of said portrait, and a series of elements appertaining to Hernández’s studio work (some of his pictorial utensils) tell the story, and posit a pictorial sequence of modernity in which the ideas of painting, the gaze and the painter as we understand them today are prefigured and constructed.

A conceptual game of mirrors which raises question marks while also providing new clues regarding the latest drifts and new courses charted by the painting of Secundino Hernández