Pipo Hernández Rivero
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 Fundació Sorigué, 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
This piece will be part of Art Brussels 2025 (see the full catalog here)
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
This piece was part of Pipo Hernández Rivero’s last exhibition at the gallery, Two Steps Away (more info here)
Pipo Hernández Rivero
Sombra blaaanca
2023
Paint, tile and wood
76 x 66 x 5 cm
This piece was presented at ARCOmadrid 2024
Pipo Hernández Rivero
Fardo 12
2021
Mixed media on canvas, elastic bands
Variable dimensions
This piece was part of Interludio 3: Fardos. Pipo Hernández Rivero (more info here)
Pipo Hernández Rivero
Lounge 5
2018
Tile, wood, fabric, resin, and acrylic
77 x 66 cm
This piece was part of Pipo’s exhibition Lounge (more info here)
Videos
Fernando Castro Flores. Crítica móvil: Pipo Hernández en galería NF.
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