Pipo Hernández Rivero (eng)
Pipo Hernández Rivero
Spain, 1966
The works by Pipo Hernandez Rivero propose questions on “universally accepted cultural truths”. Built with images and ideas based on modern culture, his works move in the fields of cultural suspicion.
Pointing out to the complex possibilities for painting in the 21st century, his body of work offers a pictorial reconsideration from formal and conceptual structures, which references underlie a sense of failure to the cultural avant-gardes. At the same time, demonstrating that the discoursive standardizing results in the exclusion of voices.
Mixing painting with all sorts of materials and introducing texts in languages that are unconventional to the Western paradigm, his works place us at politically disturbed environments, confronting the viewer with an unsolved dialogue and pushing towards rethinking notions of identity and value.
He has exhibited at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Fundación MARSO, Museo de Arte de Pereira, ARTIUM Museoa, Centro de Arte La Recova, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, Fundación Otazu, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, Prague Art Museum, and the Contemporary Art Hall of Tenerife. He has also participated in biennials such as the Havana Biennial, the Canary Islands Biennial, and the Dakar Biennale.
His works are part of the collections of TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, ARTIUM Museoa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Fundación MARSO, Colección Galila Barzilaï, Kells Collection, Olor Visual, and MUDO Istanbul.
Pipo Hernández Rivero. “Algún día todo esto será tuyo- revisitado”. 2024. Wood, plastic, oil and canvas. 248 x 205 x 6 cm
Pipo Hernández Rivero. Normas para una noche americana [Rules for an American Night]. 2024. Oil, plastic and canvas
160 x 230 x 4 cm (canvas) / 456 x 315 x 4 cm (installation)
Pipo Hernández Rivero. Sobre el miedo a los peces [On the Fear of Fish]. 2024. Oil, plastic and canvas. 204 x 220 x 6 cm
Pipo Hernández Rivero. Si oyes cualquier sonido, corre [If you hear a sound, run]. 2024. Wood, plastic, oil and canvas. 185 x 152 x 10 cm
Pipo Hernández Rivero. Fardo 2. 2021. Canvases, acrylic, and elastic rubber
Variable dimensions
Pipo Hernández Rivero. Lounge 5. 2018. Tile, wood, fabric, resin, and acrylic. 77 x 66 cm
Pipo Hernández Rivero
Solo Exhibitions
2024
A dos pasos. NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2023
Esquinitas / La Pastilla. Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2022
Ultraleve. Museo del Romanticismo, Madrid
2021
Interludio 3: Fardos. NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2020
Accidental. Fundación MARSO, Mexico City
2019
LOUNGE N.2: Grammars of Contact. Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan
2018
Lounge. NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2016
Abyssal Light. Museo de Arte de Pereira, Pereira
2014
Western Light. NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
2013
Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
2012
Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan
2011
Counterpoint. Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
SAC, Sala de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2009
Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
2007
Stillness. Centro de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2006
The Sub-Series. Galería Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2004
Veiled Space. Galería Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2001
The Bad Paintings. Academia Crítica, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2000
Galería Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
1997
Ermita del Gran Poder, Bajamar
1996
Sala San Antonio Abad, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
¡Ale-Hop!. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
NO PLACE 2024 Mexico. Galería Arróniz, Mexico City
Babel: Matter and Language. Centre del Carme, Valencia
2023
This Could Be the Place. Curated by Natalia Simó and Javier Arozarena. TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2022
Modern Museum, Retracing the Path. TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2021
The Shortest Night. MACA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante; NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ; Aural Galería. Madrid and Alicante
2020
In/Out: A Possible Map. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
NO PLACE. Vía Libertad, Guadalajara
2019
Heimat / My Land. Fundación Otazu, Navarra
Territories of the Textual: Invisible Contexts. Galería Aural, Alicante
2018
NO PLACE. Glinkastraße 17, Berlin
2014
Memorias de contrabando. Centro de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2012
Bad Arts. NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid
The Cross Shown. Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan
Languages on Paper 3. Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
2011
Languages on Paper 2. Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
2010
20th Century Painting. Town Hall, Prague
Bratislava Art Museum, Bratislava
2009
High Tension. Curated by Andrés Isaac. Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid
Round Trip. Espacio Canarias, Madrid
2nd Edition, Canary Islands Biennial
10th Edition, Havana Biennial, Cuba
2008
The Other Shore. Galería Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2005
VIII Martínez Guerricabeitia Biennial, Valencia
2004
Dak’Art 2004, Dakar Biennial
Collections
Fundació Sorigué
Olor Visual, Barcelona
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife
MUDO, Istanbul
CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
ARTIUM, Vitoria
Cabildo de Canarias
Galila Barzilai Collection, Brussels
Kells Collection, Spain / Santander
Eduardo Salazar and Juliana Hernández Collection, Bogotá
Colección Meana Larrucea